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Title: North Carolina and its resources
Year: 1896 (1890s)
Authors: Stewart, M. I. (Moses I.) prt Stewart, J. C. (John C.) prt North Carolina. Board of Agriculture
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Publisher: Winston : M.I. & J.C. Stewart, public printers and binders
Contributing Library: University Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Digitizing Sponsor: University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

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Hanoverian, occupy slopes of the Appalachianchain. No latin or Celtic admixture has dimmed the brightcurrent which flows in the veins of the heirs of the gentry and yeo-manry of the mother isle, and the scholar will observe the frequencywith which, in the houses of men whose ancestors fought Charles athome and Ferguson here, he may listen to the unmatched English ofShakespeare. Indeed it is not too much to say that more individuals in such agathering as is normally found at church or court in Western NorthCarolina will understand and relish an Elizabethian drama than canbe brought together under the same conditions elsewhere in the land. WITH GUN AND ROD. Among all the States, North Carolina stands near the head as aresort for the hunter and fisherman, but among those within easyaccess of the centers of population and wealth, it undoubtedly pos-sesses advantages equalled by few other States, which are fully appre-ciated by the local sportsmen as well as those residing in other States
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With Gun and Rod. 297 cognizant of the facts. The fact that so ardent a hunter and fisher-man as President Cleveland selects the shores and sounds of NorthCarolina as his hunting ground (which, by the way, was sometimespracticed of his illustrious predecessors), and that the wealthy EasternField Club holds its annual trials on the stubble covered fields of thePiedmont region of the State, are significant proofs of the fact that good hunting may be had here. The scope of this chapter will beto point out briefly some particulars of interest to the lover of gunand rod. Virginia Deer, (cariacus virginianus) and Black Bear, (ursusamericanus,) are the representative big game animals found in NorthCarolina, and they are both sufi&ciently abundant to be an object ofsport in the localities in which they abound, in fact, in some sectionsof the State, the bears often become a nuisance to the farmer onaccount of their depredations on the hog-pen and sheep-fold. Andthen the hunt begins, althou

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