FOREST, LJKE, AND RIVER 



cious employment of brain and pole, the guides 

 succeed in fairly forcing the canoes up perpendic- 

 ular falls of water over the large scattered rocks 

 of the rapids. At every turn of the constantly 

 winding river, new beauties of scenery are re- 

 vealed, and sometimes a salmon pool is passed, 

 where the water is disturbed as little as possible, 

 since it may be fished on the morrow. 



Salmon pools are discovered at times in the 

 most unlikely places, while many probable-looking 

 holes or rapids are found to contain none at all. 

 Why the salmon select certain pools for their 

 resting places on their way up stream to their 

 spawning grounds, and reject others which appar- 

 ently fulfil exactly the same conditions, is one of 

 those things that nobody can understand. In the 

 river we are now visiting, and in some others in 

 which the water is equally clear, the fish are so 

 plainly visible that it is not difficult for close 

 observers to locate some, at least, of the salmon 

 pools. On many of the north shore streams, and 

 on some of those of the south shore, such as the 

 Restigouche, for instance, the water is not nearly 

 so clear, and the fish are only distinguishable in 

 the pools with great difficulty, and sometimes not 

 at all. 



Some of the salmon in the pools we have passed 



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