. Breeder and sportsman. Horses. THE BREEDER AND SPORTSMAN [Saturday, August 29, 190S. REVOLVER SHOOTING A GROWING SPORT. ROD, GUN AND KENNEL HUNTING AND ANGLING IN HUMBOLDT COUNTY. CONDUCTED BY J. X. DeWITT, (By A. J. Monroe.) To those who with the return of the seasons, feel "the call of the ; and the yearning to commune with Nature in her various forms, it is indeed true that, "There is a pleasure in the pathless woods, There is a rapture on the lonely shore, There is society where none intrudes. By the deep sea and music in its roar; I love not man the less but Nature m
. Breeder and sportsman. Horses. THE BREEDER AND SPORTSMAN [Saturday, August 29, 190S. REVOLVER SHOOTING A GROWING SPORT. ROD, GUN AND KENNEL HUNTING AND ANGLING IN HUMBOLDT COUNTY. CONDUCTED BY J. X. DeWITT, (By A. J. Monroe.) To those who with the return of the seasons, feel "the call of the ; and the yearning to commune with Nature in her various forms, it is indeed true that, "There is a pleasure in the pathless woods, There is a rapture on the lonely shore, There is society where none intrudes. By the deep sea and music in its roar; I love not man the less but Nature more, From these, our interviews, in which I steal From all I may be, or have been before, To mingle with the universe and feel What I can neer express, yet cannot all ; Coming up as man does through Nature to his present marvelous intellectual and social develop- ment. Mother Nature still holds the reverence and love of her finest and truest hearted children. Fish- ing, hunting and camping, within the sound of ocean's ever murmuring solitudes or among the moun- tain heights, always has, and always will, claim many votaries. Our California is a marvelous and a glor- ious State; and that part of California which is our home, Humboldt county, is its finest and most splen- did part. It is here that the portion of the continent embracing the United States reaches its most west- erly point; and its geographical position in relation to the ocean currents and the prevailing winds make Humboldt county the most densely forested and the best watered county on the Pacific Coast. By glancing at the map of Humboldt, it will be noticed that the trend of the coast-line from Cape Mendocino to the northward for a distance of eighty miles is in a north-easterly direction, Capt Mendocino being about eighteen miles farther westward than the northern boundary of the county. It will also be noticed that the Klamath river with its tributary, the South Fork of the Trinity, Redwood creek ru
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