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FOREST AND STREAM. 



lcncli o it. like carpels of green from the leaf-laden horea. 



The iiniriiiil lite does not abound here as it did a few 

 years tigo. Everyman and l»y on the steamboats does 

 •"Blinoling; in Florid a" with some arm; pistol, champagne 

 corks, oranue pipe or rifles, and no hiul from the sparrow 

 to file eai riou buzzard is safe except in the abundance of 

 bad Shooting. All are wild, and flit on just out of range. 

 and even the stupid alligator slips from his mud hank after 

 one nr i,wo shots, 



Tiir [i -neal Bharncterof this noble river is ehieflv seen 



In'" i.'i!'.i' G»JOTg& Nnrlh of this lake the northwest 



wind-, the cold storm winds of the country, pass only over- 



i i fl n UlG frozen norlh, and In mid-winter sometimes 



" • ry iinph-asnin. chill, one thai, renders orange cul- 



: irlous, blighting in some years the now 'buds ; 



but south of this the winds having anv westerly direction 

 pass i.ver mure or less of Ihe gulf, and arc disarmed by the 

 warmth and moisture of that body of water of tbcirbiight- 

 ing chill and dryness, and about Enterprise snow and frost 

 are practically 'unknown ; palms, palmettos, bananas and 

 orange trees assume forms of vigor that render them very 

 beautiful to the northern eye, and the refugee from \\ inter 

 •aired promise Ot genlle air and golden sunshine. 



The river is very crooked, bending sharply around points, 

 cutting deeply into the banks, forming deep boiling pools, 

 where fish are seen breaking const an Uy, The shores are 



usually low; a point te-i feet high is known as a bluff, and 



' louglilby settlers for homos, possessing all the free- 

 dom from miasma, insects, and dampness that, can lie expect- 

 ed where the sun of almost perpetual Summer breeds during 

 many months a full crop of annoyances. The dryest anil 

 roost desirable places are found upon the shell mounds, 

 where one strata upon another of shells form elevation:, of 

 very considerable "extent. These shell formations are of 

 great interest, and puzzle the keenest minds with their lay- 

 ers of different shells, eaeli distinctly delined in character, 

 and differing in ft marked form from the next. 



The. water-WOrn river banks show long and perfect sec- 

 lions of this character, and the strata are plainly seen in 

 even and distinctly marked lines, not always level', but ex- 

 tending in long,' unbroken elevations and depressions; 

 showing that some disturbing upheavals have raised and 

 lowered the deposited shells after they were imbedded in 

 their present order. 



Sqme Of the strata, lying perhaps six inches in Ihiek- 

 ness, are composed of 'bivalve shells almost exclusively, 

 much crushed and broken, but cemented quite firmly, 

 i ■ lima are without shells of this form, being com- 

 posed of conical, convolute shells of about one inch on 

 i i guhir side; but these differ again— in some the shells 

 are fresh, but little broken, and not firmly cemented; in 

 Others crushed in fine fragments, antl strongly united with 

 the iimu made by their partial decomposition. All these 

 varieties mav be "seen overlying one an Uher in a vertical 

 height of four or five feet, and the different hands of color 

 form lines that arc visible as far as the face of the forma- 

 tion is exposed. 



Upon these shall lands there are found numerous conical 

 mounds, regular, in form, rising from ten to thirty feet, evi- 

 dently of human origin, supposed to have been, like the 

 pyramids of Egypt, 'burial places for the distinguished 

 dead of some race that has left no other record. The ar- 

 row heads, axes, and other works of rude art, found in 

 these mounds, are rhose of the stone age, which on this 

 continent is extended to the present time among some 

 remote Indian tribes; but some of these implements are 

 found imbedded in a conglomerate so tirm and stone-like 

 that they convey to the mind of the ethnologist an impres- 

 sion of as remote antiquity as surrounds the bone caves 

 and gravel deposits of France. 



A great deal of learning has been exhausted upon these 

 remains; but full examination has not yet been made, and 

 many links in the chain of unwritten history may be sup- 

 plied when a full comparison of these mounds and the 

 works they contain is made with the corresponding discov- 

 eries of the old world. 



As the more- minute peculiarities of our pre-bistoric an- 

 cestors are learned, there is no safe limit to assume of the 

 unravollings of the maze that surrounds the deeply inter- 

 esting questions of unity or diversity of races; audit is 

 not unlikely that secrets are hidden in the shell mounds of 

 Florida that may, when discovered and interpreted in the 

 broad light of future knowledge, tell mauy a curious tale 

 of wandering tribes and far fetched arts and customs. 



Half lost in vain theories and surmises aroused by these 

 peculiar remains, gun and rod were not uufrequcntly laid 

 aside, and our minds given up to the romantic associations 

 of the first voyagers who here sought the fountain of 

 youth, carrying so much of woe and cruelty with them 

 that it is fortunate for the present that they did not find 

 any elixir of the kind; and to the more vague but pleasant 

 fancies of the race that still earlier possessed this alluring 

 land and roamed freely, with no more idea of a coming 

 and overcoming race than occurs to us uow in our period 

 of supremacy. 



But this is drifting, and we would not be left without 

 anchorage in the realms of speculation. We really went 

 rapidly against the stream, and after a long day of full en- 

 joyment tied our craft to a bank, aud in our small but 

 snug cabin made pleasant plans for the morrow. 



L. W. L. 

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BISHOP'S CANOE VOYAGE.' 



Newbers, N. C, December 29, 1874. 

 Editor Kobest and Stream:— 



The paper canoo "Maria Theresa' 1 arrived at Newborn three hoars 

 after theyaeht Julia reached ha- anchorage ground off that city— the day 

 after Christmas. 



','. .:..a I''ii. eh .it. ill: L h-.d'-K-i-.-k l)f :..:.,, ..'ips::' [.i-'.le_'ii])Li-fl ioJild;c WeE-I 

 that the canoe had left for Currituck Souud via the Albemarle and Ches- 

 apsak* Cantd and North Landing River, our people decided to scud out 

 a part) to intercept the solitary voyager, and bring htm, wnh his paper 

 craft, up the Neu-cBivcr. The Canoe iras too small to be siehtcd at a 

 lonx dl^tuucu, and not a citizen of Newborn bad ever soon the canoe, man. 

 lion. J, E. West and a party of gentlemen explored Pamlico aud Cove 

 bouuds for six days, and returned home after nearly losing the beautiful 

 S sent Jnlia during a hurricane at Oeracoke Inlet. On the night that the 

 yacht, was rolling on the shoals aud dragging anchor with cables weighted 

 Willi iron bars, the paper canoe was safely lodged in the ruslies on Body 

 Maud best*. 



" . . i 1C it '.'as sent oat upon a second expedition under Cap'.. Brown. 

 Bantered, ■ y icht rolled b*r cabin 



■ .'.. hi i Hatteras [diet i>. I m ttu g le 



broke upon her, ... he would luvu b,-un lost without doubt. That night 

 the paper canoe was near the slirual officer's quartern at Capo Hatteras 

 Light House. The day alter, Mr. Bishop heard from a fisherman of the 

 t&ree hundred miles' cruise uf the Julia in search of his fifty-Sight pound 



craft, and finding the wind too strong to cross the shoals of Pamlico In 

 hia boat, he walked fourteen miles down the beach to Hatteras Inlet, and 

 back again through the sands, but the yacht could not be found. Tho 

 next day he arose with the moon, and paddled fourteen miles to flutter is 

 Inlet, crossed it. at one O'clock In safety, and c import in a deserted llsh- 

 erman's camp live mile- smith of the inlet. This camp was eleven miles 

 from any habitation southward to Oeracoke Inlet. The next morning by 

 moonlight the canoeist got under wsv, rowed eleven miles to Oeracoke 

 Idler, across it live mile- to I'ortsmonth, and reached Cap!.. Mason's 

 lonely quarters In Cove Sound, from which place be reaohet this city via 

 Monrelieul City, coming inland from the landing on the curs, aceompa- 

 nicd by the canoe. 



Eighteen miles from Newborn is a curious hanliug ground. Little 

 lakes arc found in the great, swamps, ami thousands of wild f jwl feed in 

 those retinal localities. Deer are numerous on the ridges. There it not. 

 probably, a better hunting ground between Newborn and the end of 

 Florida. To explore this hunter's paradise, Commodore ".Vest has char- 

 tered curls to tnke provisions down to the lakes from the nearest railroad 

 station to the hunting ground. Ills guest, of the paper canoe, and one 

 or two friead< of the. fudge will loive to-night for the camp. After tho 

 hunt is over, Mr. Bishop will continue on through Ilogue, Stump, and 

 Masonboro Sounds to Cape Pear. H. 



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Nkwhekn, N. 0., December 30, 1HT4. 

 Editor Forest ANn Stream:— 



I have to ackowlcdge the receipt of Sir! Karris' favor of the lath and 

 thai of Mr. llallock of the 31st, upon my arrival here from Cove Sound 

 via Beaufort and Mooicheatl City. The trials experienced in crossing 

 the points of the great shoals in Pamlico Sound nearly exhausted mv 

 poor slock of patience. I would be two and I luce miles from land in 

 only twelve inches of water, with the wind blowing freshly, when the 

 canoe would ground on a ''lump" in six inches of water, the seas woiUd 

 wa-h over (he low sides enough to fill her, but as long as I could lind 

 water enough for rowing purposes, and headway could lie kept, upon ttie 

 boat, t did not have much trouble. Having heard that the yacht Jnlia 

 was cruising for me. I made every effort to get as far south as Oeracoke 

 Inlet, but two severe storms and fresh northerly, as well as soiuhcriy 

 winds, made old Pamlico too rough for traveling upon with my open 

 canoe. 1 have reached Newborn, ami have received much kind attention 

 from ttlt! people. Editors from Ihe interior have called to examine the 

 paper boat. I have not yct.met, out of hundreds ofoystermen. fishermen 

 and sailors, who have examined the canoe, one person who dares to get 

 into her and row across a creek; yet I can travel, with about one hundred 

 pounds of baggage, across every inlet (as I have done! frroin CapeHeu- 

 lopen to this latitude, not excepting TIat terns aud Oeracoke. His only 

 the idea possessed by my visitors that paper is the last thing that should 

 he put into the water, that makes Ihem afraid of this beautiful design of 

 Itev. Baden Powell, elaborated and made durable by the genius and pa- 

 tience of Waiers, of Troy. I am a novice at rowing. When I received 

 my canoe at the builder's bands on the waters or the Hudson, at Troy, 

 young Waters showed me how to feather the oar correctly. My expen- 

 em.'e has been gathered iu sailing boats. If I, who ain inexperienced in 

 this rowing of small boats, and am a stranger to the drill and discipline 

 of landing iiriTuiiixulioiis, can get, on so well in these rough waters, how 

 ranch better could the trained oarsman do the same work? We are to 

 cxaminean interest ii"a; 1. anting ground near Newborn, a description of 

 which I will send you as soon I reach my next post office, at Smithville, 

 Cape Fear. Very'lruly yonrs, N. H. BisHor. 



—Bell's Life, of Dec. 19th, has an article on " Base Ball 

 in America," containing the proceedings of the Champion- 

 ship Committee in awarding the pennant to the Boston Club. 

 Thov give the record in full of games won and lost, so it. 

 seems that they regard the game as worthy of regular space 

 in their columns. 



—Chapman has seceded from the Captaincy of the Atlan- 

 tic nine, and accepted a position as Lieutenant and right- 

 field in the St. Louis nine, where he is to help Graffen in 

 in the business of the club, and assist Pcarce in the field. 



— Old Charley Pabor is to Captain the Atlantic nine in 

 place of Chapman. Barlow will catch, Hossraan pitch, 

 Crane, Patterson and Nichols play the bases, Kessler short- 

 stop, aud Booth, Pabor and Clack play the out-field. All 

 Brooklyn players. 



— The While Slocking Club of Deering, Maine, cham- 

 pion juniors of that State, won ten games and lost four 

 during 1874. Their best game was their 10 to 3 match with 

 the Mountaineers of Portland. Bodge, Pish and Ramsey 

 leu the score at the bat. 



— A co operative nine of selected local experts is to be 

 Started in St. Louis to rival the stock company imported 

 team. The make is a good one. 



— New Haven is to have a professional club to be known 

 as the Elm City Club. They are to knock spots out of the 

 Hartford crew. So Arnold says. 



—Skating was lively on New Tear's day at all the metro- 

 politan resorts; even Prospect Park being opened to the 

 public for 1he first time this season on that day. 



—The Ice Boat Club of Brooklyn launched their craft at 

 the Capitoline Lake on Jan. 5th. Next week a race is to 

 take place between Mr. Decker's Fly Away, Capt. Hallock's 

 "Nondescript." and Mr. Cbadwick's Lady of the Lake. 

 Ten times round the lake for the pennant will be the course 

 and the prize. 



— Speaking of tenpins, a correspondent says: " i'ou see, 

 while a man chooses a ball he can handle with a graceful 

 swing of his right arm, tiic girls are bound to select the 

 biggest one they can find. ' Toting' it to the starting place 

 they go on a waddling run half -way down the alley, and 

 then let go their burden with a spiteful shove, give a sigh 

 of relief, straighten up and walk back with a dignified and 

 unconcerned a'lr, as if they didn't care where that ball went 

 or whether it knocked down any plus or not." 



—The New Jersey Athletic Association will offer valuable 

 gold medals and the title of amateur champion to the win- 

 ners of the one-mile and the 100-yard races, which are to 

 be contested next May, There has been much rivalry 

 anion" the amateur walkers of the. New York and New 

 Jersey clubs. D. M. Stern is chamaion of the former, aud 

 his record of a mile in seven minutes is the best in America. 

 — Times. 



—A ten-mile walking match for the amateur champion- 

 ship took place at Franklin Park, Boston, last week, be- 

 tween J. P. Bruce and Frank White. Bruce walked the 

 ten miles in one hour and forty-two minutes, defeating his 

 antagonist by about a mile. 



—The Tecumseh Base Ball Club of Dunnville, Ont., Can- 

 ada, won five games and lost three during 1874. Their nine 

 included Cunningham, Smith, Smithers, Price, Hiseler, 

 Bickell, Amsden, Sansebv ami McDonald. Their best 

 game was the 15 to. IS match with the Maple Leaf Club of 

 Jams. 



—J. M. nolsvnaii, a member of the Philadelphia L'niver- 



sity Barge Club, aged seventeen years, walked fifty miles in 

 twelve consecutive hours in Philadelphia, last week. This 

 is certainly good walking for a lad of his age. 



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Cornell Uxtvebsity, Deoomber 31, 1874. 



EolTOK FOBKST AND STREAM :— 



I noticed in your issue of the l?th a communication from Yale College, 

 signed "K." 1 wish to make a correction. It. !s Cornell University that 

 the Vale Chess Club is playing with and not Cornell College. The latter 

 college is located somewhere in Iowa, f believe. With the assurance of 

 most Tale men, he takes it for granted that they are to vanquish us, aud 

 tropes | |,ut Cornell will act differently from Williams, and not back out 

 when almost beaten, oi words to that effect. I think a little more con- 

 siueraliou on the part of "K." wouid'nt hurt htm. A Piiti.AnoR. 



— Columbia College has followed the lead of Harvard 

 and organized a rifle club. It is hoped that, an intercollegi- 

 ate rifle match will take place at an early day. 



lilliiirds. 



The Four-Handed Match. —The loose way in which 

 matches are made and announced is illustrated" in the case 

 of the match said to have been made up and forfeit depos- 

 ited, in which Rudolphe and Vignaux were to have played 

 Gamier and Daly. Vignaux, in a card to the ('Upper, says: 

 " I will not play in such a match, but I am ready to play 

 with Mr. Gamier or Mr. Duly separately, and for 'any sum 

 no matter how large; the. game to be played on a table of 

 H. W. Calender's manufacture, furnished with his combi- 

 nation cushion." 



— The billiard event of last week was the defeat of Joe 

 Dion by Vignaux at. Tammany Hall on Dec. 30t,h. Vignaux 

 marking his play by the splendid run of 192, and another of 

 I 111. The summary' is asfollows: Tammany Hall, N. Y. City, 

 Dec. 30th, 1874. Match announced for $500 a side and the 

 championship of America. Maurice Vignaux, 000; Joseph 

 Dion, 538. Averages— Vignaux, 12.24-48; Dion, 11.10-48. 

 Best runs— Vignaux, 193; Daly, 04. Referee, John T. 

 Beeves. Umpires— for Vignaux, Isadore Gayrand; for 

 Dion, George T. Stone. Marker, B..E. Wilmarth. 



TrtE Brooklyn Professional Tourney. — On Monday, 

 Jan. 4th, the Dean Brothers, of Brooklyn, inaugurated a 

 tournament at their rooms, corner of Fulton avenue and 

 Smith street, which was arranged for the purpose of afford- 

 ing the Brooklyn people an opportunity of witnessing the 

 play of the most noted of the professionals of ihe country, 

 in a series of exhibition contests together. The weather on 

 live first night was bad; hut the attendance was such as to 

 crowd tho hall. Seats were reserved for ladies, but none 

 were present during the. match. The first contestants were 

 Rudolphe nnd Daly. They began play in a match of 300 

 points up at the French game, the result of the contest be- 

 ing the success of Daly by a score of 300 to 252. Daly's 

 best run was 121, and next best 72. Up to the twenty 

 seeond innings he did not score double figures, Rudolphe 

 leading at that time by 184 to 49. Then came the 121 run, 

 and shortly after that of 72, and this gave him the lead. 

 Rudolphc's best run was 00. The winner's average was but 

 9.21; very poor for an exhibition match. On Tuesday Joe- 

 Dion and Gamier were to play. On Monday after the game, 

 Rudolphe gave an exhibition of "fancy" shots, which quite 

 astonished the crowd. This is the first time he has played 

 in Brooklyn for some years. 



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Chess Player's Headquarters- Cafe Internal innal, 2f>4 Bowery. 



:"li,.,L- I ptj'.' ' L ■ :■"! ' ■■ 'Li.Li.--:, hii Si:-:.:.!, nveava, 



Down Town Chess Chi b— Cafe Co-inotiuhtan. I- s'ei mid avenue.. 

 Turner Hall Chess Club— Nos. 6'". and 68 East Fourth street. 

 Brooklvn Chess Club— Mercantile Tahmry, Jlutitagr.c street, 

 Jersey Cite Chess Club— Me. M Montgomery street. 

 Cross'en & Lihaire's Chess Kooms-Corner Nassau and Fulton streets. 

 New Brighton Chess Club— At Capt. Taylor's, Tompklusville avenue. 

 • Christian Union Chess Eooms— Fulton avenue, opp. Elm pi., Bk'lyn. 



The Cafe Tourney.— Mr. Mason, who thus far leads the 

 score in the tourney still in progress at the Cafe Intererna- 

 tional, appears to be over anxious to handle that fifty dol- 

 lar prize which he is so near winning, judging from the 

 columns of WiUse* 1 Spirit. It will be Time enough'to talk 

 about awarding the prize and closing the tourney when he 

 has played and won all his names with his adversaries. He 

 has yet to play Dr. Barnett and Mr. Perrin, and some six or 

 seven other players. Thus far he leads; Delmar being 

 second and Alberone third. Mr. Todd finished up all his 

 games in three weeks, and yet he only played evenings. 

 Why cannot the others do likewise? 



The Brooklyn Tourney.— Dr. Barnett and Messrs. 

 Speuce, Homer and Thayer still have the best record in the 

 club tourney. 



The Christian Union Rooms.— These rooms are occu- 

 pied by several noted experts of Brooklyn during the after- 

 noons, prominent among whim are Messrs. Thompson and 

 Doctor Alfred. 



The British Chess Association Championship.— The 

 contest, between Messrs. Wisken and McDonnell, the great 

 English players, is still the principal topic of interest in 

 chess circles. The London Field, in its comments on the 

 play in the match, says : " Compared with other matches, 

 and remembering that a slight shade of difference in 

 strength, often arising only from a difference in the slate of 

 health, has sometimes been sufficient to decide by much 

 larger majorities the issue between two players of nearly 

 equal force, we may call this match a pretty close One, and 

 it, would have been perhaps closer still had Mr. McDonnell 

 been in good form. That there was a considerable falling 

 off in the latter gentleman's play became more manifest in 

 the ending game, which used to be considered his great 

 force. On several occasions, when his strong powers of 

 resource and patience had carried him out of the opening 

 and middle part of the game (of which his opponent pos- 

 sesses a profound knowledge) with an advantage which, 

 analytically, ought to have been sufficient to win, his facul- 

 ties of calculation seemed to fail him at the last moment, 

 when victory did not depend so much upon judgment as 

 upon accuracy of reckoning. On the whole the games were, 

 however, fair specimens of well-contested match games be- 

 tween high-class players, and reflected a great amount_ of 

 credit upon the winner, who exhibited the same superior 

 qualities of endurance, depth and judgment which distin- 

 guishe-d his play in the competition for tho championship 

 of the British Chess Association, of which he was the con- 

 quering hern twice in avtWCSSion 



