22 BULLETIN OF THK NATURAL HISTORY SOCIETY. 



a human being, consists of the union of soul and body. 

 They belong together. They act and react on each other. 

 The stream moulds and makes the shore ; hollowing out 

 a bay here and building a long point there ; alluring the 

 little bushes close to its side, and bending the tall slim 

 trees over its current, sweeping a rocky ledge clean of 

 everything but moss, and sending a still lagoon full of 

 white arrow-heads and rosy knot-weed far back into 

 the meadow. The shore guides and controls the stream 

 * * bending it into a hundred sinuous curves * * 

 here hiding the water in a deep cleft overhung with green 

 branches, and there spreading it out, like a mirror framed 

 in daisies to reflect the sky and clouds, sometimes break- 

 ing it with sudden turns and unexpected falls into musical 

 laughter, sometimes soothing it into a sleepy motion like 

 the flow of a dream." The author might have had the 

 Restigouche in mind, for such a description suits it exactly. 



With patches of meadow and terrace, near each other, 

 yet separated by the river, and with precipitous hills 

 rising on all sides, the upper Restigouche can never be a 

 country of farms. The smallness of the terraces and 

 meadows, the precipitous hillsides and wild scenery, are 

 better suited for those fishing lodges, simply planned, all 

 of them after the same pattern but in harmony with 

 their surroundings, which we find farther down the river, 

 perched above some salmon pool, and empty, except 

 during the fishing season each year. 



About 12 o'clock on the day following our arrival at the 

 Waagan our guides left for home and we began the des- 

 cent of the river. The prospect before us of a fortnight 

 in the wilderness, the " paddling our own canoe " through 

 those rapids of the curving gorges ahead, our independ- 

 ence of guides, the anticipation of the discovery of some 

 new plant, sent the blood dancing in our veins with ex- 



