APPENDIX. 321 
NOTE TO TRIP TO NEW BRUNSWICK. 
Fish of all kinds are extremely cheap in the provinces. Salmon, 
near Boiestown, sell for sixty cents apiece, regardless of size, and 
grilse for twenty. In other places salmon are five cents a pound, 
while smoked fish are worth one dollar and twenty -five cents apiece. 
Lobsters are a nuisance to the fisherman, from their numbers ; and 
herring are abundant. 
The expenses of a trip for two fishermen visiting both the Mira- 
michi and Nipisiquit, and occupying a month, were as follows : 
Fare to St. John $12 00 
State room 1 00 
To Fredericton 8 00 
Extra to Wilson's 11 00 
Stores for the Miramichi 82 34 
Men's wages 60 00 
Extra to Newcastle 17 00 
Fare to Chatham 1 40 
" Bathurst Y 00 
Stores on the J^ipisiquit 29 95 
Men's wages 50 00 
Wagon to the Round Rocks 4 00 
Extra on return to Chatham 14 00 
Fare to St. John 8 00 
" Boston 11 00 
Meals and other expenses 85 00 
Delicacies 10 00 
$306 69 
CLASSIFICATION. 
Every naturalist originates a classification for himself; thank 
Heaven, I am only a sportsman, and shall merely refer to that of 
Cuvier. He makes grand divisions of fish into the bony and carti- 
laginous ; the former being separated into spinous and soft rayed, 
the latter- into those with free or fixed gills. 
AcantJiopterygii^ fin-rays spinous, including the 'percid(2^ or perch 
family, which has the edge of the gill-cover, or fore gill- cover, or 
both, denticulated or armed with spines ; the cheeks not mailed, and 
teeth on both jaws, the vomer and palatines. In this family are 
comprised the 'perca or perch proper, the Idbrax or salt-water bass, 
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