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west from St. Regis Lake, or Paul 
Smith’s house. There is a house there 
kept by Henry Phelps, with all kinds of 
accommodation for sportsmen, and 
charges reasonable — $1 per day for 
board, and $1.50 for guides. He will 
fit out parties with camping rigs, boats, 
&ec., who wish to go to some of the 
streams and ponds in the vicinity. The 
house is large and commodius; he sets a 
good table, has good beds, and is much 
better liked than the former proprietor, 
Merrill, who died a year or soago. The 
foot of the Sixteen-Mile Level of the St. 
Regis River is near the house. Boats 
can run up sixteen miles on this, and it 
is a splendid place for deer and trout, 
with a bear occasionally. The localities 
which are mostly new, and have been but 
very little visited, will all have to be 
reached by way of the Blue Mountain 
route. Wolf Pond, eight miles south- 
west from Blue Mountain House, is but 
very little visited. The upper branches 
of the Parishville River run close to it, 
and abouud in trout, some of a large size, 
and in any decent kind of a day one can 
eatch all the trout he can carry. Deer, 
bears, and panthers are to be found there. 
The river there is fifteen to twenty-five 
yards wide, and there are levels of still 
water and rapids. The levels have to be 
fished from a boat. 
There is another branch a short dis- 
tance below which is smaller, but it is 
full of trout, and has never been fished 
by a dozen different persons. There is a 
very good shanty at the pond, made of 
logs, with a bark roof, with a door and 
small glass window, belonging to a trap- 
per who traps there in the late Fall. 
All the country west of Blue Mountain 
is an unbroken wilderness for miles, until 
you come to the back settlements in St. 
Lawrence county, and there are several 
ponds and streams which have no name 
and are ouly frequented by trappers and 
a few still-hunters. Cavanaugh Pond is 
only three miles from Blue Mountain 
House, and is a great resort for deer and 
other animals; but it is not much of a 
place for trout. Many deer were killed 
there in 1879 by only a few persons hunt- 
ing. Mr. Phelps keeps a boat there, 
and has a rough shanty built on the 
shore. All this country west of the road 
for eight or ten miles north of the Blue 
Mountain House has never been visited 
but by very few, if any, sportsmen. It 
is out of the way of parties coming from 
the large sporting houses in the eastern 
section of the Adirondacks, and the only 
way they can reach it is to come down 
the St. Regis River, through Sixteen- 
Mile Level, and this would be a trip no 
guides would like to undertake. 
Three miles up the Sixteen-Mile Level 
on the St. Regis River, Quebec Brook 
empties, and about five miles up the 
brook is Muddywaska Pond. It is a 
rough road into it from the river, and a 
boat has to be carried more than half the 
way. It is a good long day’s tramp to 
go there from the Blue Mountain House. 
The pond itself is not much, but there is 
a level above and below it of about four 
miles in length each, with deep water and 
many trout of large size. It isa famous 
place for deer and other animals. It has 
been visited by some few from abroad, 
who went in with guides from McCol- 
lom’s on the Meacham Road, but few 
have been in, on account of the distance 
from any road. A gentleman who has 
been there several times says he always 
had good success. At the foot of the 
lower level there are a few beavers yet, 
and one is occasionally seen. 
Four miles below the Blue Mountain 
House, on the river, is Spring Cove 
