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grouse. and the timber lands, a short distance 
from the village, are said to harbor some few 
deer. At Townsend’s Inlet wild 
snipe are plenty, and «bout the same sport at 
fishing can be had there as at Cape May and 
Seaville. The meadows in the neigliborhood 
of Salem are execllent feeding grounds for a 
fowl and 
Jarge number of snipe. 
These points are on 
West Jersey Railroad, running Philadelphia 
(or Camden) to Cape May, and connecting at 
Vineland with New Jersey Southern Railroad. 
For Tuckahoe, leave the ears at Point Wiiza- 
beth, thence wagon; and for Townsend’s In- 
Jet, leave cars at North Dennysville, or take 
THE SPORTSMAN’S AND TOURIST'S GUIDE. 
boat at Cape May. The hotel accommodations 
are ample at any of these points. 
Somer’s Point, Egg Harbor, is a good place 
for duck and snipe shooting and salt-water 
fishing. A smooth, sandy promontory, being 
the strip of beach, seven miles in length, eall- 
ed Pcck’s Island, separates the bay from the 
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sea, aud forms e pital grounds for marlin, wil- 
let, eurlew, and robin snipe, that are brought 
within gun shot by decoys and by imitating 
their notes. The months of August and Sep- 
tenber are the best for snipe-shooting. Dur- 
ing the Fall and Winter months the bay is 
visited by innumerable wild fowl of every de 
