fishing parties are in evidence to catch the g amey bass, with which the stream was stocked twenty years ago. This was the hunting ground of that famed trio of Nimrods,Prof. Hall, of Lan- caster ; George Pownall and William H. Sproul, of Christiana, and woe betide the unlucky grouse, quail, rabbit or

and Delaware as they are bounded at the present time and a portion of Pennsylvania, extend- ing to the 40th degree north latitude, but was restricted to unsettled and uncultivated lands. The Dutch had settled at the mouth of Lewes creek in 1631, for a short �time, but were driven off by the Swedes. In