HUNTING AND FISHING GROUNDS AND PLEASURE RESORTS. 
deer, bears, wild turkeys, coons, opossums, 
and other game, and all kinds of wild fowl. 
Tomsboro’ is eight miles from Oconee, and 
embraces, to a large extent, the game region 
of Oconee Swamp. 
On the Western & Atlantic Railroad,—Some 
excellent shooting can be had along the line 
of the Western & Auantic. Leave the cars 
at either Graysville, Catoosa county; Tun- 
nel Hill, Whitfield county; Resaca, Gordon 
county ; Adairsville, Kingston, or Carters- 
ville, Bartow county ; Acworth, Big Shanty, 
or Smyrna, Cobb county. Most of these points 
are described under the head of “ The Hill 
Country.”’ The Catoosa Springs. six miles 
from Graysville, is a noted Summer resort. 
At Tunnel Hill, there is a tunnel through the 
hill fourteen hundred aud seventy-seven feet 
in length. The Falls of Etowah, equal in 
power to the falls at Lowell, Massachusetts, 
are near Cartersville, as are niounds of [to- 
wah and Old Moat, where images of heathen 
gods were found. Cartersvile is surrounded 
by some beautiful scenery, fine elevations, is 
a delightful climate, and remarkably healthy. 
The Hill Country.—What is known the as 
Hill Country is composed of the counties of 
Floyd, Chattooga, Gilmer,’ Rabun, Lumpkin, 
Walker, Union, Dade, Towns, White, Bartow, 
Hall, Gordon, Murray, Habersham, and Pick- 
ens, and lie in the north and northwestern 
portion of the State—embracing a tract of the 
wildest and roughest country imaginable— 
some one hundred and thirty miles long by 
thirty-five in width, affording some magnifi- 
cent scenery and the very best of hunting. 
The whole region abounds with game, con- 
sisting of deer, bears, turkeys, quail, squirrels, 
rabbits, and ruffed grouse. The fishing is not 
of much account; catfish and suckers, and 
some other kinds, abound iu most of the 
streams, and where the water is clear and 
cold the chub and bream are found, and in 
most of the lakes and millpouds are black 
bass, and they are also taken in most of the 
rivers where the obstructions will allow tuem 
to ascend. Warwomon’s Cr2ek, iu Rabun coun- 
ty, is the only stream east of the Blue Ridge 
that contains speckled trout, but they are 
found in nearly every mountain stream on the 
west of the ridge. The country 1s decidedly 
rough, and hotels few and far between; 
though most of the villages have one or two 
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houses of ‘entertainment for man and beast,”’ 
ranging in price from about $1 to $1.50 a day, 
or from $5 to $6 a week; but the people are 
generally hospitable, and will “ take the 
stranger in” and do for him in their homely 
way, spreading before him the best the house 
affords, though the fare will not be up to the 
standard of Delmonico’s. Those, however, 
who cannot concoct their own coffee, and 
sleep on hemlock boughs, with their feet to 
the camp-fire and the blue canopy of heaven 
for a counterpave, had better not visit this 
section; but to those who delight. in camp- 
life, and are fond of wild and magnificent 
scenery, it will well repay them to pitch their 
tents in this mountainous region, After once 
striking the initial point, it is almost impossi- 
ble to be led astray, The whole section is a 
land of hunters—many of the residents hunt 
_for a living; and will act as guides when oe- 
casion offers, They kuow the whole country 
like a book, and will willingly guide the 
stranger to the best points. They can be 
found in every village. The section is reached 
by the Western & Atlantic Railroad, running 
from Chickamauga, Tennessee, to Atlanta, 
Georgia. The best points to leave the cars 
are Resaca (one hotel), Calhoun (one hote)), 
and McDaniels, in Gordon county; Hall’s 
Station, Kingston, Cartersville (one hotel), 
and Stegalls, in Bartow county ; for points in 
Floyd and Chattooga counties, take the Sel- ; 
ma, Rome & Dalton cars to either Rome (two 
hotels—$3 a day), Plainville (one hotel—$3 
a day), or Sugar Valley, where there is some 
beautiful scenery; and Ske!ly’s. For Dade coun- 
ty, take Alabama & Chattanooga Railroad, 
and leave cars at either Morgansville (no ho- 
tel) or Trenton (one hotel—$1 a day). This 
village is situated in a beautiful valley, eailed 
Lookout, named from the creek that runs its 
entire iength. Lookout Mountain on one-side: 
is twelve hundred feet above the level of the 
creek; Sand Mountain on the other is eight’ 
hundred feet. Morganton, in Fannin county, 
and Lafayette, in Walker county—both good 
centres to operate from—are accessible. by 
carriage from Dalton. For Gilmer county; 
take Western & Atlantic Railroad to Tilton, 
ninety miles from Chattanooga, thence private: 
conveyance to Ellijay. The Tullah. Falls, in 
Habersham county, are reached. by the At- 
lantic & Kichmond Air.Line; aud.taking the. 
