142 GAME AND FISH RESORTS. 



Harrishurgk. Deer hunting ifl the vicinity of Lykens, WOliamstown, ana 

 Grotz, Peters, Berry, and Short Mountains, and up the Juniata in the Black Log, 

 Tuscarora and Bald Eagle Mountains. Cox's Island in the Susquehanna, four 

 miles, is a famous resort for ducii slayers during the fall and winter, and for shad- 

 seining in the spring. Wild turkeys are found in the valley skirting the Kittatinny, 

 Rober'ts, and Peters mountains— in Fishing Creek, Stony Creek, Clark's and 

 Powell's Valley. 



Ouail and woodcock are found within a few miles of the city. The fanners 

 are" pretty strict, however, and forbid their kiUing» except for a money 

 equivalent. 



York HiUs, eight miles below the city, is a fair locality for rabbits, grey squir- 

 rels and woodcock. Up the river, on the flats opposite McCormick's Island, 

 Dlover of the yellow-legged variety are found in great numbers along the marshy 

 grounds on the Eastern Shore of ^^taryland and Northern Virginia. 



Jack-snipe may occasionally be shot along the river. Their feed'ng grounds 

 being principally along the marshy creeks and rivuletg emptying into the river, 

 and on the edges of the grassy flats when the river is low. Swans, wild geese, 

 and wild ducks are shot above the city. Canvas-backs, red-necks, black, mal- 

 lards, etc. 



Black bass in the Susquehanna and its tributaries. Blue Mountain is a great 

 resort for shooting grey and red squirrels, foxes, minks and weasels. A few 

 partridges are found there. Reached via the Pennsylvania, the Philadelphia and 

 Reading, and other railroads. 



Delaware County — 



Chestef^ the Lazaretto and Marcus Hook^ are much visited by Philadelphia 

 sportsmen, for their excellent rail and reed bird shooting. These places are on 

 the Philadelphia, Wilmington and Baltimore Railroad. The Lazaretto is eleven 

 miles from Philadelphia. Chester, fourteen miles has several hotels, and at Mar- 

 cus Hook, or Linwood Station, as it is now called, accommodations may be 

 secured. 



In order to have the best show for a shoot, it will be better to secure a pusher, 

 which can always be done by application at the gun stores of Mr, John Krider, 

 corner of Second and Walnut streets, or Mr. Abraham Peterman, in Dock Street 

 above Walnut, Philadelphia. As this kind of shooting is done altogetner from a 

 clean, dry boat, the shooter require? no special change of clothing. 



By taking the through Washington train in the afternoon from New Vork, 

 sportsmen can be landed at Chester before midnight, and by looking at any 

 Philadelphia paper can learn at what time it will be high water on the days they 

 wish to shoot, always rating the tide forty minutes earlier at Lazaretto than at 

 the navy yard at Philadelphia, where the record is m,ade. 



Knglish snipe shooting can be had at these points, and one can alternate his 

 sport by taking one day with the rail, and the next with snipe. At Marcus Hook, 

 good ducking is to be had in season. 



Mlh Count}/ — 



Ridffway. Deer are very abundant ; one of the best shooting grounds in. the 

 country ; bears, wolves, panthers, fo.\es ; trout in Clarion River and tributary 

 streams. Reached via the Philadelphia and Erie Division of the Pennsylvania 

 Railroad. Hotel SS-SO perweek; guidesS3 per day; teams 63.50. Provide caum- 

 ing outfit. Mountainous country. ' -— u- 



Trout, Straight's and Clarion Creeks, with all the tributaries of the Clarion 

 River, in this county, are good fishing streams. 



Wilcox. Deer, ruffed grouse ; trout in the west branch of the Clarion River 

 Reached via the Philadelphia and Erie Railroad. Board $1 to $3; teams $■; 

 guides procured at moderate rates. Country hilly. 



St. Mary's. Deer, ruffed grouse ; tr^ut. Reached via Philadelphia and Erie 

 Railroad. Hotels, $2.30 per day. 



Mrie Count t/— 



Erie. The harbor affords excellent fishing in summer. Presque Island which 

 forms It bemg full of small lakes and ponds in which the fish spawn The sum- 

 mer sport compnses the mascalonge, pike, black bass. Perch and herring are 

 caught m wmter. In May and June a fish caUed blue pickerel is cau^^lit in 

 thousands with hand lines from a boat anchored over what are called the Banks 

 rhey runirom fifteen to twenty inches in length, and are very greedy taking the 



