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HUNTING AND FISHING GROUNDS AND PLEASURE RESORTS. 
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Lake Wawayanda, near Vernon, a pleasant 
drive from Newton, is an excellent place for 
black bass, . 
Matawan and Holmdel are good points for 
quail and rabbits shooting. Matawan is ac- 
cessible by wagon from Keyport, and Holm- 
del is but a short drive from Red Bank. Key- 
port and Red Bank are easily reached from 
New York by boat and rail. 
IN THE KEYSTONE STATE 
There are many localities in Penusyl- 
vania where excellent shooting and fish- 
ing can be had. A _ region exist ou the 
eastern border of the State, containing 
thousands on thousands of acres, never 
trodden by human feet, over which roam 
laree game in the greatest abundance, 
including deer, bears, and wild eats; the 
section is traversed by innumerable trout 
str.ams, that afford the very best of 
sport. The fish are not as large as those 
taken in the Rangeley Lakes and the 
Canadian waters, but what they lack in 
size they make up in game qualities and 
most delicious flavor. Most of this vast 
tract of land lies in Pike county, and is, 
as before stated, but sparsely settled, and — 
wild in the extreme, aud consequently 
has not been ‘“ fished to death.” Its | 
surface is covered with primitive forests, 
and is made up of lofty mountains and 
lovely valleys, aud traversed by streams | 
of pure, ice-cold spring water, with beau- 
‘either still-hunting or hounding. 
| pike, pickcrel, black bass, &c. 
tiful lakes and superb waterfalls. In some 
respects this vast game range is a sort 
of miniature Yellowstone region. The | 
best game quarters are ‘said to be the 
Paupack Ridges, the Green township for- 
ests, and the long range of mountains 
extcnding back of Dingman’s to Porter’s 
Lake. ‘To those who can make their 
home in the woods this vast tract offers 
unusual inducements. 
There is no part of the Alleghanies that 
offer more attractions to sportsmen than 
the extensive wilds of Potter and Elk 
counties, the Cheat River Country of 
West Virginia alone excepted. The en- 
tire section abounds in game and trout, 
but those who go there must go pre- 
pared to “rough it,” for, excepting an 
occasional huuter’s camp or some lone 
settler’s cabin, there is scarcely a habi- 
tation to be found. The Pine and Ket- 
tle Creek regions are well known deer 
preserves, where they occasionally vary 
the sport witha wolf hunt, a bear chase, 
or a panther fight, and fill up spare time 
shooting squirrels, hares, grouse, &c. 
The vast forests of hemlock, spruce, 
and pine, in Carbon, Luzerne, and Sulli- 
van counties still retain their natural 
wildness, and form a wide home for the 
deer, the bear, and the panther, together 
with innumerable squirrels and all kinds 
of feathered game. Here, among the 
rocky fastnesses, they still range in con- 
siderable numbers, and are but little 
hunted save by a few indefatible sport- 
men who occasionally visit that section. 
The extensive swamps and large num- 
bers of small lakes for which these coun- 
ties are noted, offer splendid grounds for 
These 
counties contain numerous well-stocked 
trout streams, and almost every river, 
lake, and pond have an abundance of 
In the 
neighborhood of Bear Creek Station is 
good grouse shooting, and squirrels can 
be found almost anywhere in the woods. 
ON THE PENNSYLNANIA RAILROD, 
Railroads being now the common high- 
ways of our land, it is but natural that 
their managers should seek to accommo- 
date the traveling propensity of the peo- 
ple, and now almost every important line 
in the United States makes a prominent 
feature of Its “‘ Summer Excursions,” to 
