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united with comfortable accommodation. At the 

 Sault St. Marie, at Marquette, at Grand Island, and 

 at Bayfield public-houses are to be found, and so 

 plentiful a supply of fine fish that the heart of man 

 cannot fail to be satisfied ; but the finest sport is to 

 be realized along the Canadian shore, where camp- 

 ing-out is a necessity ; for while on the southern 

 coast the trout average a pound, on the northern 

 they will run fully two pounds in weight. 



To reach Lake Superior from the Eastern States 

 the angler must either take the steamers at Cleve- 

 land upon days advertised in the local papers, or 

 join them the next evening at'Sarnia, by the Grand 

 Trunk or Great Western railroads of Canada. He 

 will reach the Sault in three days from Cleveland, 

 and can save twenty-four hours in going by the way 

 of Sarnia. At the Sault he will find unequalled bait- 

 fishing, and occasionally excellent fly-fishing ; but 

 here, on account of the depth and strength of the 

 water, the bait will kill the largest trout. At this 

 thoroughly American village there is a well-kept 

 hotel, the Chippewa House, and nearly all the re- 

 quisites for camp-life, except the tent. 



A few miles below the Sault the Garden River 

 affords good sport and fair-sized trout, but is a diffi- 

 cult stream to ascend, while the first promontory 

 on the southern shore of the lake, called White Fish 

 Point, has long been famous as a fishing-station. 

 At Marquette, which is . a regular stopping-place for 

 the steamers that traverse the lake, the waters are 

 somewhat fished out ; but about thirty miles to the 

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