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TVHEKE ABE THEY? 



DEVIL'S LAKE, 



politely termed " Spirit Lake," a charming and romantic lit- 

 tle gem of water, composed of pure crystal springs, having 

 no risible inlet or outlet, nestled in among the Baraboo 

 Bluffs, in Sauk County, one hundred and seventy miles from 

 Chicago, on the Chicago & Northwestern Railway, where the 

 delighted pleasure-seekers and friends of the finny family can 

 drop a line to a variety of the species. 



THE "DELLS OF THE WISCONSIN," 



at Kil bourn City, in Columbia County, is another wild, roman- 

 tic, and enchanting place of resort frequented by people from 

 all parts of the country. A late writer says : " It is only 

 after repeated visits that one can say he has seen the 'Dells ; ' 

 indeed, after passing through them again and again, the 

 tourist is charmed at some new revelation. The following 

 members of the family that are the objects of sport inhabit 

 this beautiful river: black basse, pickerel, pike-perch, or 

 glass-eyed pike, sheepshead, herring; the whole family of 

 suckers, including the red horse and buffalo ; the catfish, 

 sturgeon, the gar or bill-fish; and the broad-bill or shovel- 

 nose sturgeon, called by the Indians the hopossun-chunker. 

 The glass-eyed perch have been taken weighing fifty-two 

 pounds, and the pickerel of seventeen pounds' weight." 



About eight miles from this place, at Big Springs, is the 

 trout-hatching house of Freeman Richardson, and fourteen 

 miles northeast is the Jordan Lake, well known in that 

 region for the pleasurable trolling for black basse, pickerel, 

 and pike-perch. In the Baraboo River, trout are again 

 found, and westward and northward in all the minor streams 

 as far as the Mississippi. From 



