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fessup, (ir Winder, on the St John's, to Lake Tohopekaliga, or Cypress, the head 

 Afaters of the Kissimmee. 



It is said to be about forty miles over land, and one hundred and forty down 

 the nver to Bassenger. 



The Kissimmee, as it enters the lake, forms a bay a mile in width and depth, 

 hUed with lilies and water-lettuce. There are two cvpress trees near its mouth, 

 but all around is marsh. The most conspicuous birds on the river are the limpkin 

 ir crying bird, the white ibis, white heron, snake bird and vulture. Black bass are 

 plentiful and large perch, cat-fish and bream also abound. 



The game birds found here are wild turkey, quail, kill-deer, plover, snipe, 

 yellow legs, red breasted snipe, ^and hill cranes, clapper lail, coots, herons, 

 Dittem, green wing teal and wood duck. 



GEORGIA. 



Area 58,000 square miles: population 1,600,000. The State 

 has a coast line of one hundred miles from north to south, but by 

 numerous islands and their inclosed sounds this is increased to 

 four hundred and eighty miles. Back from the coast for twenty 

 miles, the surface is low and swampy, stretching out, in the ex- 

 treme southwest, into the Great Okifinokee Swamp. Back of this 

 swamp land the country rises by 3. series of terraces covered with 

 pine forests, to Baldwin County where the foot-hills begin. North 

 and west of this county is the hill country described more particu- 

 larly hereafter under Bartow County. The State is well watered 

 by numerous large rivers, and these with excellent railroad con- 

 nections afford good facilities for communication with all parts of 

 the interior. Many portions of the State, especially the great for- 

 ests of the central and southern sections are sparsely settled, and 

 there are few hotels. But the stranger will find no difficulty in 

 securing either entertainment or guides when the latter are neces- 

 sary. 



Bartow County f and TJie Hill Country — 



The northern and north-western portion of Georgia, embracing the counties 

 of Rabun, Habersham, Hall, White, Towns, Union, Lumpkin, Fannin, Gilmei; 

 Pickens, Murray, Gordon, Bartow, Dade, Walker, Chattooga, and Floyd— a tract 

 one hundred and forty miles long by about seventy-five wide — contains some 01 

 the roughest, wildest and most picturesque scenery in our land, and this is " The 

 Hill Country of Georgia." 



The tourist will find high mountains, crystal streams, deep, dark gorges, roar- 

 ing torrents, smiling valleys — in short, the grand and the beautiful in nature in 

 every conceivable form, and the lovers of the rod and gun can find in its recesses 

 some of the choicest sport in the South. It is a wild country, and it will be no 

 child's play hunting and fishing through this wilderness. Game of all kinds is 

 abundant. Deer and bear are everywhere found, and amid its deep fastnesses 

 the scream of the panther is not unfrequently heard. 



The visitor to the hill country will also find turkeys, partridges (quail) and 

 squirrels abundant, and the seasons in this elevated region are but little earlier 

 than much further north. As a general thing fish are scarce ; suckers, bull-pouts 

 and several other varieties are found in most of the streams. Where the water 

 IS clear and cold ';he chub and bream abound, and most of the lakes and mill- 

 oonds contain " crout," i. ir., the black bass of the South. These bass are also 



