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THE SPORTSMAN’S AND TOURIST’S GUIDE, 
Mountain House, of which Mr. J. H. Davis is 
proprietor, is capable of accommodating fifty 
guests. The table is well supplied with all the 
luxuries, the beds good, the rooms airy, and 
the charges $2a day. There are several min- 
eral springs uear the city, two of which are 
especially noted for the cures effected by their 
waters. 
Tuere are some excellent shooting-grounds 
one mile of the lake. The scenery that sur- 
rounds the city is worthy of mention. A ledge 
of limestone rock, elevated some 200 feet and 
over above the level of the prairie, presenting, 
in many cases, perpendicular precipices 75 to 
100 feet high, borders the eastern and south- 
ern margins of the prairie on which the city 
is buit; from the base of this ledge hundreds 
of springs of cool, rippling water gush out, 
CASTLE ROCK, 
SPARTA, 
WISCONSIN. 
Acc:ssible by Chicago & Northwestern Railway. 
in the vicinity of Burnett Junction, one hun- 
dred and fifty-two miles from Chicago. All 
kinds of wild fowl—ducks, geese, brant, and 
swans—are found in countless numbers in s¢a- 
son. Accommodations can be had at either of 
the two hotels in the village. 
Chester, one hundred and sixty miles from 
Chicago, is in close proximity to the Horicon 
marshes, noted for their splendid duck-shoot- 
ing. There is one good hotel in the village, 
terms about $1 a day. 
Fond du Lac is located at the southern end 
of Lake Winnebago, one hundred and seventy- 
six miles from Chicago. It is built upon a 
prairie on the banks of Fox River, and within 
and meander over the gentle slopes of the 
prairie in narrow channels to the lake. West- 
ward the ground gradually rises, alternating 
with prairie and timber for 25 miles. The city 
is noted as being very healthy, owing proba- 
bly to its excellent supply of water, there be- 
ing within the city limits over 300 artesian 
wells, out of which is constantly flowing, from 
the depth of 60 to 400 feet, the purest water. 
Lake Winnebago is 35 miles long by 12 broad 
—the largest lake wholly within any one State 
in the Union — and is noted for the excellent 
wild-fowl shooting. Its waters are furnished 
with a full supply of fish, and ladies and gen- 
tlemen can find ample piscatorial recreation. 
