28 NORTHERN LAKES. 



considerable small game may be found, in season. Also fishing in 

 the small lakes is usually good. 



The scenery surrounding Sheboygan and "The Falls "is very 

 attractive. Lovely vistas unexpectedly appear, picturesque hills 

 and valleys, winding streams and rural homes, all are beautiful; and 

 with the hospitality of the people we meet, we are forcibly re- 

 minded of an old- country scene. 



At MANITOWOC the next point on the route, the road leaves 

 the lake and bears westward, crossing the Fox River at Appleton. 



NEW LONDON, farther along up the line, is quite a place for 

 fish and small game, but for sporting in the fullest acceptation of 

 the term, go a little farther. 



Just beyond CLINTON VILLE the watchful tourist will become 

 conscious of the fact that the appearance of the country is grad- 

 ually undergoing a change. The cultivated fields and comfortable 

 looking farm houses have been left behind. Soon we will have 

 fairly entered the great Wisconsin forest. Another of such extent 

 does not exist east of the Rocky Mountains, its eastern, western and 

 northern boundaries being respectively Green Bay the St. Croix 

 River and Lake Superior. 



The southern portion of this great forest consists of a magnificent 

 growth of hard-wood maple, beech, birch, elm and other varieties, 

 interspersed with groves of pine and hemlock. This belt of hard- 

 wood timber extends almost across the entire State and from 

 twenty to thirty miles north and south, of course, varying some- 

 what. 



During the open season in Wisconsin (Nov. 1st to Dec. 15th) this 

 hard- wood district is the favorite resort of the deer. In the sum- 

 mer he seeks a cooler region further north, and may then be found 

 in the forest immediately south of Lake Superior. Even in his 

 summer home this handsomest of wild game is not allowed to rest. 

 The open season in Upper Michigan commences ten weeks earlier 

 than in Wisconsin, on account of which this hotly-chased creature 

 is compelled to stand considerable popping at before he meets the 

 reserve force down in Wisconsin. 



Beyond the hard-wood belt is the great pine forest, and here we 

 enter the lake region proper, of north-eastern Wisconsin. 



PELICAN LAKE is the first that deserves special attention. It 

 has already gained quite a notoriety for the excellence of its fish, 

 bass and muskalonge in particular. 



