CH.VP. ii. SALMON-FISHING STATION. "2J 



away from the influence of the sea breezes. The 

 balsam-poplar and birch were nearly in full leaf, and 

 grew in graceful clusters on the precipitous sandy banks, 

 which were at least seventy feet high, and increasing as 

 we ascended the stream. On approaching the Eapids, 

 fourteen miles from the mouth, the spruce and birch 

 became handsome trees, frequently eighteen inches in 

 diameter. Land-slides showed the country to consist of 

 incoherent sand some sixty feet thick, resting on grayish- 

 blue coloured clay, of which fifty feet were seen above 

 the surface of the water. 



Beautifully situated, two miles below the Eapids, is the 

 salmon-fishing station, leased by two American gentlemen, 

 but now deserted in consequence of the civil war raging 

 in the States. The level character of the country changes 

 here, and the cold gray gneiss, peeping out from the 

 spruce-clad banks, tells the reason why ; the level drift- 

 covered banks of the Moisie are transformed to swelling 

 domes of rock, clothed with the dark green spruce, striped 

 here and there with the more delicate-hued birch. Near 

 the foot of the Eapids we arrived at the fishing station 

 formerly tenanted by one of the most successful salmon 

 fishermen in Canada, Captain James Strachan, of Toronto. 

 His spruce-bark lodge still remained on the bank where 

 it had been pitched some years before, and near it were 

 the rude but ample comforts and conveniences with which 

 sportsmen in Canada often surround themselves in the 

 woods, when time and means are at their command, and 

 which contribute in no small degree to the enjoyment of 

 a camp in the wilderness. They all appear to have been 

 respected by the few Indians who come down the river, 



