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spawning beds. There is the stony pool for the salmon, 
the pebblj one for the trout, and never do the two 
spawn, and rarely even live, in tlie same. The pool 
where the salmon lie is deep and rapid, with a bottom 
composed of dark limestones averaging about the size of 
a bantam's egg. While the trout hide in a sluggish pool, 
and often one worn away by the water and hollowed 
from a clay bank. It is a tradition, but one by no means 
well substantiated, that trout never eat young salmon, 
nor salmon young trout. As trout are more fond of their 
own species than almost any otlier delicacy, it is not 
probable they would be fastidious about swallowing a 
nice, juicy little salmon. 
The country through which these streams run is very 
peculiar : rough hills of granite rise almost perpendicu- 
larly from the edge of the water, many hundred and 
sometimes many thousand feet. Their sides are bare 
and bleak, and if adorned at all with verdure, it is w^ith 
a stunted pine and spruce, that only half hides the white 
rock beneath. The streams wind in tortuous course 
among the crags, and slowly gain a high elevation. 
These bare, unprofitable hills extend back from the north 
shore of the St. Lawrence as far as the foot of man has 
penetrated, and only at long intervals by the shore of 
some of the larger rivers, where forty centuries of storms 
have worn away and washed the detritus from the moun- 
tain into some little bay, have half civilized beings been 
enabled to build rough cabins and glean a scanty sub- 
sistence. Thus are these waters, the home and nursery 
of the trout and salmon, protected forever by nature 
against the pervading destructiveness of man. Judicioua 
