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Appleton, De Pere, or Green Bay for 
breakfast, reaching Ashland for supper 
at 6.45 o’clock in the evening. This 
train also takes on a sleeper at Milwau-. 
kee for the acecmmodation of those start- 
ing from that point, or who arrive from 
the West. 
The day train leaves Chicago at 10 
River, in the immediate neighborhood, 
there is good duck-shooting. The na- 
tural features and surroundings of the 
lake are unexcelled ; the shores are high 
and picturesque, with a high and sandy 
beach at which boats can land at any 
point. Its outlines are very irregular, 
with numerous coves and inlets. The 
ELKHART LAKE. 
a. M., dinner at Milwaukee, supper at 
Elkhart Lake, Menasha, Appleton, De 
Pere, or Green Bay. The first point of 
any general interest to our readers is 
Elkhart Lake, sixty-two miles from Mil- 
waukee, one of the most beautiful sheets 
of clear water in inland Wisconsin. The 
lake covers about eight hundred acres, 
and is, in many places, two hundred feet 
in depth. Fish are abundant, and there 
is plenty of game in the adjacent forests, 
‘and in the big marsh of the Sheboygan 
id 
water being supplied from springs, is 
very pure and clear, and small objects on 
the bottom, at a depth of twenty-five 
feet, can be readily discerned. With the 
exception of here and there a_ finished 
clearing, on which stands a hotel or cot- 
tage, the lake is completely surrounded 
by enormous trees, in many places over- 
hanging the water, affording shelter for 
the angler, or shady nooks for rowing 
parties. The hotel accommodations are 
ample and of the best. The Swiss Cot- 
