HUNTING AND FISHING GROUNDS AND PLEASURE RESORTS. 
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Rapids, caught in Lake Michigan, near 
Charlevoix, in two hours, thirty-nine of 
this species, weighing three hundred and 
thirty pounds, the largest of which weigh- 
ed twenty-five and another twenty-four 
pounds. They fished in about three hun- 
dred and fifty feet of water, three miles 
from shore, under the guidance of an In- 
dian chief called Micksaba. On several 
other occasions, the same gentlemen were 
TRAVERSE CITY. 
quite successful at the same sport and 
made large catches. - 
The merits of Northern Michigan as a 
game producing country have been long 
and favorably known to the great ma- 
jority of sportsmen, and it is probably 
unnecessary to speak at any length on 
this subject. It were well, perhaps, to 
state for general infornation, that the 
eternal forests of this territory furnish 
hiding places for the more than usual 
variety of light and heavy fur and fea- 
ther. Bears, deer, rabbits, squirrels, 
&e., among the animals; and ducks, 
geese, snipe, plover, pigeons, quail, wood- 
cock, ruffed grouse, wild turkeys, phea- 
sants, partridges, &c., among the birds, 
would cause the safe conclusion that the 
hand of the benificent Creator had been 
indeed lavish, and sprinkled the vast 
woody fastnesses with enticing calls for 
the thousands whose delight it is to min- 
, gle with silent Nature in 
her solitudes. It is learn- 
ed from the Cheboygan 
Tribune that a couple 
of sportsmen from that 
town spent a week dur- 
ing October at the head 
of Mullet Lake, hunting 
ducks, &ec.; that they 
shot a goodly number of 
the mallard, teal, ¢an- 
vas-back, &c., which fre- 
quent that region to feed 
upon the abundant wild 
rice; and that when tired 
of bagging ducks, they 
went into the woods and 
| shot some of the plentiful 
supply of partridges. 
An enthusiastic cor- 
cespondent of the Lan- 
caster Gazette visited 
this sportsman’s para- 
dise, and in writing home, says: “‘ Deer 
are very abundant, grouse plentiful, rab- 
hits, partridges, ducks, and geese by the 
million, and the black bear is not a rarity 
by any means. For the rod and gun 
Michigan takes first rank of all the 
States.” 
The Richmond Telegraph, of Septem- 
ber 25th, 1879, contained the following: 
‘Sportsmen have commenced shooting 
pigeons and ducks around here ( Petos- 
key), and a week ago to-day some men 
