HUNTING AND FISHING GROUNDS AND PLEASURE RESORTS 
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River, Washita, Bayou Moro, Saline, and 
Bayou Bartholomew. The most consid- 
erable of these, the Washita, is naviga- 
ble for steamboats—as indeed are all the 
others to a somewhat less extent. It 
will be seen that this is preeminently a 
land of navigable streams—and conse- 
quently of steamboats—so that it is com- 
paratively easy to reach any desired 
point in the State, To this may be add- 
ed, fair railway facilities; but the prime 
favorite with the native population is the 
steamboat. 
Tn the bottom lands, along the lower 
course of these rivers, and within the dis- 
trict covered by their annual overflow, is 
a system of lakes, lagoons, or ponds, us- 
ually lying low—anything but inviting 
in aspect—surrounded by cypress trees 
of large size, possessing and needing no 
long streamers of moss to intensify and 
set off their unspeakable dreariness. The 
sportsman soon becomes habituated to 
these gloomy scenes, and learns to find 
not only fish and game, but pleasure in 
exploring them. They usually have one 
bluff ( but not very high), and one low 
or sloping bank. The high bank is not 
unfrequently covered with a luxuriant 
growth of cane, furnishing unlimited sup- 
plies of fishing-rods, as well as affording 
cover and concealment to the careful 
hunter. ‘The lakes are generally suppos- 
ed to be old river beds, and are uniform- 
ly of the width of the parent stream. 
They are resorted to by myriads of wild 
fowl in the Winter months. Some of 
them are quite deep, and many arefed by 
cool springs at the bottom. These lat- 
ter are exceptionally well stocked with 
fish. 
To give any adequate account of the 
number, extent, and resources of these 
lagoons would far exceed the allowable 
limits of this paper. It is only neces- 
sary to add that they are as a general 
rule stocked with all the game fishes of 
the section—pickerel, bass, and perch. 
‘The lakes along these streams are well 
stocked with choice specimens of the bass 
and perch tribes. 
To the geologist and the student of 
natural history, Arkansas presents a field 
full of rare attractions. But this article 
is intended only for the sportsman. 
UNFREQUENTED REGIONS OF 
THE ADIRONDACKS. 
There are a few localities in the north- 
ern portion of tne Adirondacks, most of 
which have been comparatively little fre- 
quented by sportsmen from abroad, 
There are but two roads in the country, 
running north and south, reaching up 
into the heart of the Adirondack region. 
One is from Malone, running directly 
south to Paul Smith’s on St. Regis Lake, 
and past Meacham Lake; the other from 
Moira and Brushton, fourteen miles west, 
runnning directly south and parallel to 
the other to Blue Mountain. After go- 
ing ten miles south there is no road cross- 
ing from one to the other, and all the 
country between the two is an unbroken 
wilderness. All the parties going in at 
the northern end of the Adirondacks, or 
nearly all, have gone in by the Malone 
road, and of course that portion in the 
western part of the country has not been 
nearly as much hunted as the eastern, 
except in the extreme south end, which 
has been hunted and fished over by par- 
ties fitted out from St. Regis and Sara- 
nac lakes, and by parties coming in by 
Tupper’s Lake. The road that runs 
south from Moira, ends at Blue Moun- 
tain, twenty-four miles south. It is near- 
ly opposite Meacham Lake on the Ma- 
lone road, about fifteen miles west of 
there and about twenty-five miles north- 
