HUNTING AND FISHING GROUNDS AND PLEASURE RESORTS. 
numbers. Hatchie River, five miles, and Fork- 
ed Deer River, seven miles from Brownsville, 
afford good fishing. Two miles from Madison 
there is a noted watering place, with all kinds 
of water. The Elkmount Springs, a favorite 
Summer resort, is ten miles from Prospect. 
Hotel accommodations can be had at all the 
points mentioned, charges $1 to $2 a day. 
On the Nashville, Chattanoogr & St. Louis 
Railroad.—This line in iis course through the 
State, traverses the counties of Hamilton, 
Marion, Franklin, Bedford, Rutherford, David- 
son, Cheatham, Dickson, Humphreys, Carroll, 
and Weakley. The best shooting points are 
easily accessible by stopping at Wauiuutchie, 
Whitesides, Cowan, Bell Buckle, Smyrna, 
Bellevue, Kingston Springs, Burns, McEwen, 
Johnsonville, Huntingdon, and Gardner’s. 
Hotel accommodations can be had at all these 
points, except Bell Buckle, Bellevue, and 
Gleason, but at these points boarding houses 
are to be found that will provide for your 
creature conforts. The charges range from 
$1 to $2 a day or $3 10 $8 a week. At near- 
ly all the points good quail and rabbit sho:t- 
ing cav be had. 
the vicinity of Wauhatchie are quite a num- 
ber of deer, and the fields are well supplied 
with quail. Coosa Cove, two miles from 
Cowan, noted for its magnitude and beautiful 
stalactites, is a noted resort for tourists. The 
Bon Aqua Springs, noted for their splendid 
Sulphur water, are ten miles southeast of 
Dickson Station. At Big Bottom, ten miles 
from Johnsonville, there is good quail and 
squirrel shooting. The oak and hickory for- 
ests around Huntingdou, abound with squir- 
rels, as do also the woods in the vicinity of 
Dresden. 
On the Mississippi Central Roilroad.—¥or 
shootisg aloug this road stop at Hickory Val- 
ley, Middleburg, Bolivar, Toon’s Station, Me- 
don, or Harrisburg. There are hotels at Bohi- 
var, and Toon’s Station, but oone at the other 
places; but private board can easily be ob- 
tained. Prices range from $1 to $2 a day or 
| $4 to $12 a week. Bolivar is a fine village 
: of some two thousand inhabitants, and has 
two first-class hotels at which an excellent 
bill of fare of fare is served guests at $2 a 
day. These houses of entertainment are more 
attractive for the genuine hospitality of their 
proprietors than inviting in external appear- 
In the mountain ranges in 
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ance. The Hatchie River, Spring Creek, and 
a number of other streams in close proximity 
of: Bolivar, afford a good supply of the usual 
varieties of Southern fishes. Some wild tur- 
keys and deer are said to find a home in 
’ Hatchie Swamp ~ not far distant. 
On the Mobile and Ohio Railroad.— This 
road runs through Obion, Gibson, Madison, 
and McNairy counties, and good shooting can 
be had in the vicinity of either Union City, 
Rutherford, Dyersburg, Trenton, Humboldt, 
Jackson, Pinson, Henderson, or MeNairy. 
There are hotels at all these places, charging 
from $) to $2.50 a day—and $5 to $12 a 
week. The game consists of quail, squirrels, 
and rabbits. At those points where the wal- 
nut and hickory forests predominates, there is 
good squirrel shooting, as, for instance, Ruth- 
erford, Trenton, Humboldt, &c. There is pas- 
sable fishing in Deer Forked River, which 
flows past Dyersburg and Jackson. Ten 
miles from Humboldt is Gibson’s Wells, a 
celebrated watering resort. Jackson is a good 
| centre for quail shooting, and is noted for its 
healthy and salubrious climate. 
Reelfoot Lake.—In the northwestern corner 
of Tennessee, in Obion county, at an average 
distance of three miles from, and running 
south from nearly the Kentucky State line, 
parallel to the Mississippi River lies Reelfoot 
Lake, the production and result of the so-call- 
ed New Madrid earthquake in 1811. In ex- 
tent of water surface it may be safely esti- 
mated at fifty miles for length, and ten miles 
for greatest width, its contour irregular, hav- 
ing many points of timbered land projecting 
into it. Throughout its area of many square 
miles the sportsman will see and meet innu- 
merable stumps, logs, and cypress knees,— 
enough, at all events, in a day’s rowing, to 
fully test his dexterity in managing his boat, 
and bring out all the moral attributes of a re- 
fined and moral educaticn. In the nortl east- 
ern arm of the lake, surrounded and shut in 
by a thick setting of dead trees, there is a 
beautiful sheet of water about three miles 
long, from one to two hundred yards wide 
said to be of unbroken depth, called the Blue 
Basin. Some of the other notable localities 
are Grassy Point, Long Point, Horse, Starved, 
and Choctaw Islands. This lake is supplied 
with fresh water, nearly every Spring, from 
the Mississippi, through a slough or bayou 
