HUNTING AND FISHING GROUNDS AND PLEASURE RESORTS. 
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ermen and sportsmen—the many inlets pene- 
trating it being the resort of every variety of 
wild fowl and the homes of some of the finest 
and giumest salt water fish in America. Boat- 
ing on these landlocked waters is safe and 
pleasant. Tuckerton is a centre for these at- 
tractions, and furnishes superior accommoda- 
tions to Summer tourists. Beach 
six miles from Tuckerton. It is located on 
Long Beach, a smooth, sandy promontory, hav- 
ing the ocean on one side and Little Egg Har- 
bor Inlet on the other, and is reached by steam- 
boat from Tuckerton. The facilities of Beach 
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| those suffering from hay fever. 
the Atlantic on the other, only separated by 
a beach half a mile in width, makes it not only 
delightfully cool, but a perfect sanitorium for 
Bathing at 
Beach Haven has a prominent place among 
other amusements, as the hotels are in close 
proxim:ty to the beach, which has a gentle 
iucline, with little or no undertow. Hoard 
ranges from $8 to $10 a week, with a fine ta- 
ble supplied with all the luxuries of the sea- 
son, iucluding the choicest fish and fowl, fresh 
from the bay. 
The celebrated snipe and woodcock grounds, 
known as the Big and Little Piece, are half- 
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sey coast, and the beautiful bay, extending for 
sixteen to twenty miles, affords great sport to 
those fondof sailing The fishing is very fine, 
and almost every hour of the day parties of 
ladies and gentlemen, though ouly amateurs, 
come into the hotels carrying strings 0 fish 
to the number of hundreds. The bay—only a 
stone’s throw from the hotel porches—is stud- 
ded with a thousand islands, which sbound 
with willet, marlin curlew, yellow-legs, do- 
withers, black-breasted plover, robin snipe, 
and all the dfferent kinds of wading birds, and 
in the Fall and Spring the bay is a noted re- 
sort for ducks, geese, and brant. Such fish- 
ing, gunning, and sailing does not belong to 
‘any other resort along the New Jersey coast. 
The fact of Beach Haven being six miles from 
mainland, and with the bay on one side and 
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way between Patersonand Newark. English 
(or Wilson) snipe are the most abundant, and 
for several weeks in the Spring and Fall the 
meadows are filled with shooters. The birds 
are aS numerous now as they were twenty or 
thirty years ago, but the hunters have so mul- 
tiplied that they often outnumber the birds, 
and it is only those that are fortunate enough 
to reach the ground when the flight is at its 
height that are able to make a respectable 
bag. Black ducks are also sometimes found. 
The meadows are some twelve miles distant 
from any railroad station, and are reached only 
Wagon or tramping. 
Kcho Lake Deckertown, and Newfoundland 
are accessible via New Jersey & New York 
Railroad. Echo Lake, noted for its large and 
abundant pickerel, is six miles from Charlottes- 
