HUNTING AND FISHING GROUNDS AND PLEASURE RESORTS. 
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persons wishing to fish or hunt in this 
neighborhood. 
Passing through Burt Lake, the head 
of Indian River is reached, and you ar- 
rive at the popular caravansary of David’ 
Smith, familiarly known as the “ half- 
way house.” Not only are good accom- 
modations furnished here to the hrngry 
or weary guests, but superb fishing is 
obtainable within easy distance. The 
Indian River flows past the door—a 
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very silver thread upon Nature’s carpet 
—r pp'ing and laughing in gleeful mel- 
ody as it softly lapses over its mossy 
bed. The Sturgeon River is close at 
hand; Douglas Lake but two, and Pigeon 
River about five, miles away. Steam- 
boats will be rented to fishing parties 
by Mr. Smith, and boats and tackle are 
furnished gratuitously to the patrons of 
the house. 
Upon leaving Indian River, the tour- 
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ist enters Mullet Lake—larger and ful y 
as charming as Burt Lake, About two 
miles from the head Pigeon River and 
Mullet Lake Summer Resort House is 
approached, a newly-erected and excep- 
tionally handsome structure, situated at 
the southern end of the lake. The loca- 
tion of the house is very fine, command- 
ing a full view of the beautiful lake 
spreading away to the northeast, hem- 
med in by clustering hills and formed in- 
to cosy bays and confid- 
ing inlets. ‘The house has 
accommodations for two 
hundred guests, is first 
class in every respect, 
and has a number of row 
and sail boats on the lake 
for the use of its patrons. 
Two new elegant eighty- 
feet steamboats, fitted up 
in- handsome style, ply on 
the Inland Route during 
the season. The rivers 
within an hour’s rowing 
contain abundant trout 
and bass, aud near at 
hand is the Pigeon Riv- 
er, famed for its gray- 
ling. Half a mile further 
ona new hotel at Koeh- 
ler’s, where twenty-five 
guests can be accommo- 
dated. 
From Mullet Lake you pass into the 
Cheboygan River, and soon reach Che- 
boygan, situated on the Lake Huron 
side of the Michigan Peninsula, com- 
manding the eastern entrance of the 
Straits of Mackinac. Fishing in this vi- 
cinity is very fine, Black Creek, one 
mile east of Cheboygan; the creeks and 
streams entering Duncan Bay, three miles 
east; the Oqueoc, fourteen miles east; 
and in ihe streams. between Cheboygan 
