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the many pleasant places and scenes of 
uote and the hunting and fishing grounds 
throughout the country. The attractions 
presented to the sportsman and tourist | 
along the route of the Pennsylvania 
Railroad are unequalled by any other 
line in the Union. It has so amplied its 
system of ‘Summer Excursion Routes,” 
until now they extend to all the noted 
hunting and fishing groauds and through 
all the varied and interestiug scenery 
for which the Middle, Eastern, Northern, 
and Southern States are celebrated. The 
numerous and widely diverging lines of 
the company, following the courses of 
beautiful rivers, penetrating the fast- 
nesses of giaut mountains, reaching the 
restless waves of the mighty ocean, and 
meandering through romantic vales to 
breezy heights, afford facilities for plea- 
sure travel unrivaled on the whole conti- 
nent. Not only are the routes offered 
by the company extended and varied in 
their attractions, leading to many well- 
stocked game ranges and most excellent 
trout streams, but the accommodations 
provided over and along them are as per- 
fect as skill and liberality can produce. 
The Summer tourist can select from the 
routes it offers a jaunt of a few miles ur 
a journey of thousands. But whether his 
vacation be limited to a few days or ex- 
tended to months 
shade of a suburb or the attractions of 
whether he seeks the 
remote resorts—the same care will at- 
tend.him and the same comfort surround 
him. He will be neither hurried nor de- 
layed while on his journey; he can pause 
where attractions are blended, and when 
inclined ‘‘ pursue the even tenor of his 
way,” taking his trout here and bagging 
his game there, and wheu he returns to 
the busy hum of life at the expiration 
of his furloug, will commend the Penn- 
svlvania line to all who purpose “ ram- 
bling by rail,” or desire to reach some of 
the many excellent hunting and grounds 
along the route. 
Butler, Dcwnington, Middleton, Harris- 
burg, Blairsville, Saltsburg, Columbia, Dun- 
cannon, Cresson, Uniohtown (reached from 
Connelsville), and some other points are all 
good centres for ruffed grouse, quail, wooce 
cock, and rabbits. Bedford, Altoona, Wil- 
liansburg, Tyrone, Epensburg, Bellefonte, 
Clearfield, Connelsville (reached also by Bal- 
timore & Ohio Railroad), Brownsville (reached 
from Connelsville), Hollidaysburg, Chestnut 
Ridge, Indian Creek Valley, and Laurel Hill 
(the three last named near Connelsville), 
Mount Union, Huntingdon, Mifflntown (reach- 
ed from Perrysville), Muncy, Lewistown, and 
Eaglesville, in addition to the gume already 
mentioned, are all good points for deer, bears, 
and wild turkeys, and can all be reached by 
Pennsylvania Railroad. 
At Blairsville are some turkeys, and at Col- 
umbia are numerous wild ducks. At Harris- 
burg quail and woodcock are found in con- 
siderable numbers near the city limits. York 
Hills, a few miles below, is a good place for 
rabbits, woodcock, and squirrels. Yellow- 
legged plover are found in large numbers on 
the flats opposite McCormick’s Island. All 
the different varieties of wild fowl are shot a 
short distance above the city. Squirrels— 
gray and red—as well as foxes, minks, and 
weasels, are killed in large numbers in Blue 
Mountain. 
Cresson, situated almost ou the summit of 
the Allegheny Mountains, where they are 
crossed by the Penusylvania Railroad, at an 
altitude of 2,000 feet above the level of the 
sea, is a very popular resort. The sportsman 
will find game of all kinds abundant. Squir- 
rels ure very numerous. The hotel accommo- 
dations are of the best kind; the atmosphere 
is deliciously cool ahd pure. Shade Mountain, 
near Mifflintown, is an excellent locality for 
bear. In most of the places named the coun- 
try is wild and mountainous, and game actu- 
ally plenty. Ebensburg, the seat of justice of 
Cambria county, is situated on the western 
slope of the Allegheny Mountains, eleven 
miles from Cresson, with which point it is 
connected by a branch railroad. The situa- © 
tion of the town is very near the mountain 
