HUNTING AND FISHING GROUNDS AND PLEASURE RESORTS. 
ery with the several roads diverging there- 
from, and passes through Lee, Chambers, 
Henry, Macon, and Montgomery counties. 
On the Tombighee and Alabama Rivers — 
Stop at any of the towus on the Tombigbee 
and Alabama rivers, go a few miles inland, 
aud you will find plenty of deer, bears, wild- 
cats, raccoons, opossums, wild turkeys, ducks, 
geese, snipe, woodcock, rabbits, and squirrels, 
and can take from the rivers and their trib- 
utaries all the white and channel cat and buf- 
fulo fish you want... For sport in Washington 
county, take the Tombigbee River steamboat 
to St. Stephens, or drop cff the cars at any 
of the stations on the Mobile & Ohio Rail- 
road, and strike inland a few miles. Game 
ig plenty, and you can’t well miss finding it, 
comprising all the varieties mentioned ia 
Choctaw and Marengo counties. Deer, tur- 
keys, and quail can be had in good numbers, 
along the river bottoms of the Alabama 
River, in Wilcox and Monroe counties. Leave 
the boat at Black’s Bluff or Clinton, or take 
the Selma & Gulf Railroad to Allenton or 
Pine Appie. For operations in Monroe coun- 
ty, leave the boat at Claiborne. 
The Louisville, Nushville & Great Southern 
Railroad renders the game sections of Lime- 
stone county easy of access. Game is abun- 
dant, and consists of deer, turkeys, quail, 
ducks, and yeese, aud fine sport van be had 
in taking black bass, jack salmon, speckled hen, 
&e. Stup at Elkmont, Athens, or other points 
along the route. Hotel accommodations at 
Elkmont and Athens. There are many ex- 
cellent points along the Tennessee and Elk 
rivers, which can be reached by boat. Good 
fishing can be had at Guntersville. Short 
Creek is weil supplied with black bass, cat- 
fish, drum, perch, red-horse, and wall-eyed 
pike. The place can be reached by wagon 
from Huntsville, thirty miles distant. 
The best game districts in the State are 
Choctaw and Marengo counties, lying be- 
tween the Tombigbee River and the Missis- 
sippi State line. The country is rough— 
hills, valleys, and dales—and the game con- 
sists.of deer, bears, wild-cats, raccoons, opos- 
sums, rabbits, squirrels, wild turkeys, ducks, 
quail, geese, snipe, woodeock, &c. Outside 
of Louisiana, if would be difficult to find a 
better place for woodcock. Deer and tur- 
keys are also abundant. 
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full of lakes, and these are full of fish of 
several varieties. The Tombighbee also con- 
tains an abundance of fish. The section is 
reached from Montgomery by the Western 
Alabama Railroad, Alabama Central to De- 
mopolis, then by boat down Tombigbee River 
to Tuskohoma, and thence wagon to Butler; 
or go to York, and thence by private convey- 
ance to Mount Sterling or Butler—four miles 
distant and eight miles distant; or take the 
car at Meriden, Mississippi, to York, and 
there carriage to Butler. Or take the boat at 
Mobile to Bladen Springs Landing, and ask 
Mr. Keron to drive you to Bladen, four miles 
distant from the river. Or continue on to 
Tuskohoma, and Mr. Henry Gaines will give 
al] needed information, and show the visitor 
an abundance of game. At Bladen there is 
a hotel, and Mr. James T. Staples will put the 
sportsman on the path of all the game he 
wants to shoot. There is no hotel at Butler, 
and the visitor will have to draw,on the 
knowu hospitalities of the villagers for ac- 
commodations. 
Berwick’s Bay, or Wick’s Bay as it is called 
by the natives, is simply a lake-like expan- 
sion of Fish River, where it forms an elliptical 
basin some three miles long and two miles 
broad before its embrochure into Mobile Bay. 
Where its waters mingle with those of the 
bay it is not more than two hundred yards 
wide, aud at this place is a bar, which is a fine 
place for seining. Here the angler can enjoy 
the advantages of both fresh and salt water 
fishing. In the river and its uumerous tribu- 
tary creeks and branches are multitudes of 
perch, and a species of bass, called by the na- 
tives fresh water trout. Berwick’s Bay is 
only a mile below the mill, and in its waters 
are salt-water trout, redfish, croakers, sheeps- 
head, and mullets by the myriad. These lat- 
ter cannot be caught with a hook, but are 
| easily caught with nets, and are used for bait. 
Minnows are not to be had, and cut mullet is 
used almost exclusively. Along the shores of 
the bay are several houses, built after the 
Creole style, with large overhanging roofs and 
encircling piazzas. There, standing amid moss- 
covered live oaks, magnolias with their dark 
leaves and creamy flowers, and the luxuriant 
fig trees, rank foliage, and purple fruit, form a 
scene most attractive to all lovers of Nature. 
The counties are | The fishing in the bay is at times very excit- 
