HUNTING AND FISHING GROUNDS AND PLEASURE RESORTS. 
trout streams in the country, runs with- 
in a mile of the village, and teams, &c., 
are obtained for a reasonable remunera- - 
tion. At Traverse City, twenty-six 
miles from Walton, the visitor, upon 
alighting from the cars, finds himself 
upon a narrow peninsula of sand, formed 
between the Boardman River and the 
Grand Traverse Bay. On facing the 
bay, he looks with wonder at the vast 
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of the bay till it is merged in the lake, 
thirty miles distant, there is presented 
to the eye an ever-changing panorama of 
surpassing loveliness. The highlands 
skirting the bay, and the islands resting 
upon its bosom, are ‘clothed with 
the greenest of forests, or evince 
the care of the husbandman and the vine- 
dresser in well-tilled fields and flourish- 
ing vineyards. 
Traverse City is located 
SPEAKER'S STAND, METHODiST CAMP GROUNDS, BAY VIEW. 
stretch of water before him. Away to 
the north it reaches as far as the eye can 
discern. The shores of the bay, heavily 
fringed with evergreen, are reflected in 
the clear, bright water, with a witchery 
charming to behold. The water of the 
bay, and in all the streams in this region, 
is remarkably pure and clear. In the 
bay, any white object can be distinctly 
seen at a depth of sixty feet or more. 
at the head of the west arm of Grand 
Traverse Bay, one of the oldest towns 
in the whole Grand Traverse region. 
Unusual attractions are presented here 
| for the sportsman and tourist; the 
broad expanse of bay, than which 
no more beautiful sheet of water ex- 
ists in the world, with its undulating 
shores and crystal clear water; the clean 
gravelled streets, and miles of well-kept 
From the semi-circle forming the head | sidewalks of the village; its comfortable, 
