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HUNTING AND FISHING GROUNDS AND PLEASURE RESORTS. 
does not know how to lure the speckled deni- 
zens from their native element. In the vicin- 
ity af Busbkill, are the Bushkills, Pond Run, 
Saw and Tom’s creeks, and several others, all 
good streams. 
Kettle Creek, Young Woman’s Creek, Bea- 
ver’s Dam, Spicewood River, Trout Fork, Ox 
Bow Bend, Paddy’s Run, in the vicinity of 
. Renovo, Lick Run, Bald Eagle Creek, and the 
streams northwest of Lock Haven; Pine, Ket- 
tle, Driftwood and other streams, tributary to 
the Sinnamahing River, near Emporium. The 
Clarion River and its tributaries,—Trout, 
Straight’s, Clarion Creek, and some others,— 
easy of access from either Ridway, St. Mary’s, 
or Wilcox; Nelson Run, Freeman’s Run, 
Birch creek, the headwaters of East Fork, and 
many other streams, accessible from Wharton 
Mills, or Coudersport, are all good trout 
streams, and will yield the angler good creel’s, 
By locating at Emporium, all the best streams 
in Cameron county can be easily reached. 
CENTRAL PENNSYLVANIA. 
In the vicinity of Lykens, Williamstown 
and Grotz, Peters, Berry, and Short moun- 
tains, some fine specimens of deer are killed. 
Occasionally a frightened buck or timid doe is 
run down to the Southern Slope of the Kitta- 
tinny’s into the farming districts, four or five 
miles north of Harrisburg, and Cox’s Island 
in the Susquehanna, four miles from Harris- 
burg, is a famous resort for duck-slayers dur- 
ing the Fall and Winter, and for shad-seining 
in the Spring. Wild turkeys are found in the 
valley skirting the Kittatinny, Roberts, and 
Peters mountains—in Fishing Creek, Stony 
Creek, Clark’s and Powell’s valleys. The ma- 
jority of the deer hunters go up the Juniata 
River in quest of deer annually, to the Black 
Log, Tuscarora, and Bald Eagle mountains, 
and even beyond Altoona, along the Hastern 
Slope of the Alleghanies. 
Quail and woodcock are found within a few 
miles of Harrisburg. The farmers are pretty 
strict, however, and forbid their killing except 
for a mouey equivalent. The severe Winters 
of the few past years decimated the quail fam- 
ily considerably, but hundreds of dollars were 
spent for birds from Virginia and milder cli- 
mates than Pennsylvania, and now they are 
becoming plentiful. 
York hills, eight miles below Harrisburg, 
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is a fair locality for rabbits, gray squirrels, and 
- woodcock. Up the river, on the flats opposite 
McCormick’s Island, plover of the yellow-leg- 
ged variety are found in great numbers along 
the marshy grounds on the eastern shore of 
Maryland and Northern Virginia. They fly 
northward often when storms prevail in the 
localities where they abound farther south 
than Harrisburg. 
Jack-snipe may occasionally be shot along 
the Susquehanna River—their feeding grounds 
being principally along the marshy creeks and 
rivulets emptying into the river and on the 
edges of the grassy flats when the river is low 
Swans, wild geese, and canvas-back, red-necks, 
black, mallards, &c. are shot above Harrisburg. 
ANGLING WATERS IN THE 
EMPIRE STATE. 
The following described waters covers 
to a large extent the fresh water fishing 
grounds in New York: 
In New York, there are many places that 
afford good trout fishing. The Adirondacks 
—a vast wilderness, embracing over five thou- 
sand square miles —is visited annually by 
large numbers exclusively for trout. En- 
trances to the wilderness are via Prospect, 
Boonville, Lowville, and Carthage, on the 
Utica & Black River Railroad; from Potsdam 
and Malone, on the Ogdersburg & Lake Cham- 
plain Railroad; from Plattsburg (thence to 
Point of Rocks, Ausable Station), Westport, 
and Fort Edward, on the Delaware & Hudson 
Canal Railroad; Crown Point, on the Ver- 
mont Central Railroad; Little Falls and Her- 
kimer, on the New York Central Railroad ; 
and by boat from Clarksboro’, at the terminus 
of the Potsdam branch of the Rome, Water- 
town & Ogdensburg Railroad. From Boon- 
ville a road leads to the Fulton chain of lakes, 
the centre of that part of the wilderness known 
as John Brown’s Tract, and to Arnold’s; 
thence by water conveyance to Racquette 
Lake, from which the whole northwestern 
part of the Adirondacks can be reached by 
continuous lakes and streams. By diverging 
from the usual paths of travel, this route will 
yield the sportsman fish and game in abun- 
dance. Arnold’s affords the best hunting and 
fishing in the entire region. From Lowville 
and Carthage, roads lead to Lake Francis 
