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one flows into Lake Huron and the other into Lake Michigan. 

 Every description of game is found in the forests and jungles along 

 their shores. Grayling is a flourishing little town in the heart of a 

 wild and picturesque region. Near it is Portage Lake, one of the 

 most beautiful sheets of water in the State. With its delightful 

 climate, fine hunting and fishing, and pleasant society, Grayling 

 has every requisite of a popular summering place, and is the great 

 center of the grayling fishing region. 



CHEBOYGAN, where the Michigan Central train sweeps out in 

 sight of the green waters of Huron, and the white crested waves of 

 the Straits of Mackinac, is a beautiful little city of four thousand 

 inhabitants, with broad, white beaches, and a fleet of yachts and 

 row boats always at command. The surrounding lakes abound 

 with white-fish, lake trout, pickerel, pike, muskalonge, bass and 

 perch, while the streams swarm with grayling and brook trout. 

 Deer are plenty in the neighboring forests, some bears are found in 

 the deeper glades, and every lakeside is alive with ducks, snipe and 

 other small game. At Chebojgan is the eastern end of a chain of 

 exquisite lakes and rivers, that cut the peninsula entirely in two; 

 and a trip on the dainty little steamer, that makes daily trips 

 through this necklace of lakelet beads strung on a silver-river 

 thread is one of the delights of a season. A run of six miles up the 

 Cheboygan River and Mullet Lake is reached. This is a magnificent 

 sheet of water, twelve miles long and six miles wide. It is two 

 hundred feet deep, with sloping beaches of white sand, and waters 

 clear as crystal, and literally alive with black bass, pickerel, muska- 

 longe, and swarms of splendid white-fish, of which great numbers 

 are taken by spearing. Muskalonge weighing from forty-five to 

 forty -eight pounds have frequently been caught. 



Sturgeon River, which empties into Indian River near Indian 

 River Station, is said to afford as fine grayling fishing as any stream 

 in the old or new world. 



The Trout Brook and Little Black River, near Cheboygan, abound 

 with brook trout, and a good fisherman can easily catch from one 

 to three hundred a day. 



The vast wild-rice fields at the head of Mullet Lake afford splen- 

 did duck shooting, and snipe and woodcock are abundant. Deer 

 and bear are found in plenty, and the whole region is a sportsman's 

 elysium. 



From Mackinaw City, the terminus of both the Grand Rapids & 



