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rounded with every facility for its pursuit, would 

 still be elated at finding some well-stocked stream 

 near at hand. Anglers, as a rule, are unable 

 to go far a-field in search of fresh-water fish- 

 ing, and for six years past it was a continual 

 thorn in my flesh, mortifying me considerably, 

 that no information could be obtained of any good 

 fishing that did not necessitate an absence of sev- 

 eral days. 



Last season, entirely by accident, I ran upon a 

 magnificent place within nineteen miles of New 

 York City. It is a beautiful spot, easily reached 

 without much expense or trouble and within an 

 hour's ride by rail. In all my search, this is the 

 one spot I care to recommend to my readers. 

 Take the cars from Jersey City to Rah way, N. J., 

 and upon arriving there walk to a small village 

 called Milton, half a mile west of Rahway ; pass 

 through this, continue half a mile further west, and 

 you will reach Milton Lake. An hour and a half s 

 time covers the distance. I generally take the one- 

 thirty p. m. train, and return in the evening ; but 

 trains run almost every hour to and from Railway. 



Milton Lake is a body of water about a mile 

 square, with two outlets, one falling over a pictur- 

 esque stone dam twenty feet high into a stream 

 about ten feet wide ; and the other outlet, a small 

 stream flowing through a mill-gate to the Milton 

 Mills. In each of these streams there are plenty 

 of bass, but in the lake proper and in the little 

 brook that flows into the upper end of the lake, 



