156 BULLETIN OF THE NATURAL HISTORY SOCIETY. 



The Nipisiguit river deserves its name, ( Win-peg-y-a-?cik, angry 

 waters). It is a succession of rapids, with a few falls making a 

 " carry " round them a necessity. The river is comparativefy wide 

 and shallow, but with sufficient water to float light canoes in the 

 dryest season. The rocky bed presents a good many obstacles to the 

 canoeman, who has to be constantly on the watch to prevent " scrap- 

 ing." As our canoe had been somewhat battered on the Restigouche 

 tiip, and had not been improved by two years' storing in a dry place, 

 we had to be especially careful to keep ourselves and it from parting 

 company on the trip. 



The Nipisiguit is like the Restigouche in some respects, but very 

 different in others. There are no salmon above Grand Falls, the falls 

 presenting an obstacle which they are not able to surmount. One 

 rarely meets with the deep pools so common on the Restigouche, but 

 the shallower pools are the abode of trout innumerable, and casts at 

 any place on the river rewaid the angler with catches of fine specimens 

 weighing from one to four pounds. The bed of the river is an inter- 

 minable succession of rocks and shingle, while the bed of the Resti- 

 gouche is almost everywhere overlaid with gravel. There are few 

 terraces on the Nipisiguit, whilst these are picturesque features of the 

 Restigouche, especially where they are crowned with fishing lodges, 

 the abode of sportsmen. The flora of the Nipisiguit is less interesting 

 and varied than that of the Restigouche, and affords fewer rare speci- 

 mens, especially in ferns and those boreal species brought down by its 

 branches from the hills and mountains of Quebec. The Restigouche 

 has comparatively low land along its upper course, the land rising 

 gradually into mountains along the lower stretches. In the portions 

 of the Nipisiguit toward the mouth, especially above Grand Falls, the 

 hills are low, the land gradually rising as the river is ascended until alti- 

 tudes of from 1,000 to over 2,000 feet above sea-level are nut with 

 along its upper waters. The tributaries of the Nipisiguit are much 

 less in size and volume than those of the Restigouche, except the south- 

 west branch, which is nearly the size — even broader at the mouth — than 

 the main stream. Many islands are met with in the Nipisiguit river, 

 a few clothed with grass but many more covered with a growth of 

 trees, some of considerable size. There are more wild animals — liens, 

 moose, deer, caribou, along the Nipisiguit, the country being wilder 

 and less frequented by sportsmen. 



The monotony of our second days' voyage by the novel (to us) 

 "horse and dug-out team" was destined to be rudely interrupted, ami 



