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largest running from a pound to a pound aud 
a half, and from that down, aud when the num- 
ber of visitors is considered there seems to be 
but little exaggeration in the remark made by a 
sportsman in Malone that ‘‘ more than three 
tons of trout had been taken out of Salmon 
River in a year.” They seem to be taken bet- 
ter with a fly than with bait, the favorites be- 
ing a red ibis, brown hackle, aud a gray fly. 
Montreal flies and white millers are also used 
with success. 
Many deer come into Round Pond, Wolf 
Pond, and the other sheets of water in the 
neighborhood, and traces of bear are also vis- 
ible. Many partridges are to be found in the 
woods. There is a good, although unpreten- 
tious, hotel at the dam, kept by R. J. Cunning- 
ham (known as “ Rus”), where guides and 
boats can be obtained. The house is beauti- 
fully clean and the fare good. Visitors should 
take the Hudson River & New York Central 
Railroad to Malone yia Ogdensburg & Lake 
Champlain Railroad. From there a team can 
be hired for the State Dam. 
GLIMPSES OF SOME NORTH- 
WESTERN SCENERY. 
An able correspondent of The Chica- 
go Ficld writes thusly of what may be 
seen in the Northwest: 
For the number of its beautiful lakes and 
rivers, Wisconsin is unsurpassed by any State 
in the couutyy. Even in the thickly settled 
southern portions of the State they can hardly 
be named or numbered for the multitude of 
them, while lying to the north of a line run- 
ning east and west through the centre of the 
State, from Eastmoor on the Mississippi to 
Green Bay, is a vast country as large as the 
State of New York, and as full of deer and 
ducks and grouse, and lovely gems of lakes, 
and sparkling trout streams as the Adiron- 
dack reigon itself, awaiting the Summer ad- 
venturer. The beauty of Geneva Lake is well 
known. Itis a rival for the clearness of its 
waters, and the natural cleanliness of its white 
pebbled shores to the far-famed Walden of 
Thoreau, near Concord, Massachusetts. Lake 
Geneva possesses more natural beauty than 
Thoreau’s Walden. 
Only six miles from Geneva Lake is Delevan 
Lake, another attractive sheet of water five 
miles long and a mile wide. No better fishing 
ground for rock and black bass and pickerel 
can be found in the State. Its shores, like those 
of Geneva, are being lined with Summer cot- 
tages and pleasure grounds, and the sportsman 
will soon have to seek other lakes less easy of 
access to the general public. The lovely chain 
of lakes which environ Madison, give it the 
most beautiful and picturesque lecation of any 
city in the country, are too well known to need 
any descriptior. 
In Green Lake county the sportsman will 
find pleuty of duck shooting and the tourist 
will find some interesting lake scenery on Big 
aud Little Green Lukes. The former lake is 
eight miles in length by two in width, and the 
latter about. half as large. The scenery around 
these lakes is picturesque add beautiful beyond 
description. The north shore of Little Green 
Lake for more than a mile in extent is com- 
posed of a beautiful white sandstone, rising in 
some instances perpendicularly to the height 
of seventy-five to eighty feet. The lakes are 
of remarkable depth and clearness of water, 
and their bottoms have in many places the ap- 
pearence of white marble floors, from the many 
white shells which le upon them. The shores 
of Lake Winnebago are lined with many beau- 
tiful oak groves which offer very attractive 
spots in which to erect a Summer’s camp or 
build a more permaneut Summer retreat. The 
country around Winnebago Lake is one of 
great fertility and richness, and no more plea- 
sant country and lake scenery can be found. 
Green Bay City has a beautiful situation 
near the mouth of the lower Fox River where 
it empties into Green Bay. Klkhart is anoth- 
er one of those delightful lake resorts where 
one would be almost content to live forever in 
the beauty of its natural surroundings. In 
fact, in the fifty-three counties of the State, 
whose geography aud topography are well 
known, hardly one can be found which does 
not contain at least a score of lakes more or 
less picturesque and attractive to the lover of 
scenery or to the sportsman. At Oconomo- 
woe, not less than forty-one of these lakes are 
found in a radius of nine miles, making ove of 
the finest drives and parks anywhere to be 
found. These lakes are filled with pickerel, 
bass, and perch. 
If the tourist prefers rivers to lakes, there 
are no nobler or more picturesque streams 
