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fish and game of the province. But with the best inten- 

 tions they have never been able to effect any good result. 

 The fact is that it seems impossible to enlist the sympathy 

 of the country people in any protective measures, and 

 without their sympathy and co-operation all legislation 

 and private efforts in a sparsely-settled country are 

 rendered nugatory. 



Salmon run earlier in Nova Scotia than in any other 

 part of the Atlantic coast. They are taken in the end of 

 April and beginning of May in some of the rivers to the 

 westward of Halifax. Eastward their time is June. Gold 

 River, a beautiful stream running into Mahone Bay, is 

 about the earliest. La Have, a good river, conies next ; 

 also Port Medway, Tusket, Indian Elver, and Ingram 

 River. Close to Halifax there is a little river called the 

 Nine-mile-river that often holds a fish. To the eastward 

 Ship Harbour River, Sheet Harbour River, St. Mary's, 

 Country Harbour River, and Salmon River are about the 

 best. None of these streams are by any means so good as 

 they used to be, and some fine rivers, the Musquodoboit for 

 instance, in which twenty salmon have been killed by one 

 rod in a day, are now quite destroyed. There is good sea- 

 trout fishing in most of the rivers I have named, and in 

 many other streams and estuaries. 



The brook-trout fishing is still very good, as good, 

 perhaps, as in any part of the world. All the lakes and 

 all the streams abound with trout, some of them as sporting 

 fish and as pink fleshed and good for the table as angler or 

 gourmand need desire ; but, and. I can give no reason for 

 this, even the brook trout (/S. Fontinalis)does not rise so well 

 at the flv when the river or lake which he inhabits is shut 



