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annum. The Upsalquitch salmon are much smaller than 

 the Restigouche or Metapedia fish ; averaging perhaps 

 12 Ibs., but they take the fly very freely. The fishing 

 season on the Restigouche and its tributaries is a little 

 later than on the rivers farther north; it is seldom in 

 fishing order before the last week in June or the 1st of 

 July. Farther down, on the New Brunswick side, we 

 come to the Jacquet, a good little river, which is leased 

 up to 1878 for $105 per annum. 



The Nepisiguit, one of the best known of Canadian 

 rivers, is leased up to 1883 for $300 per annum. There 

 is frequently a vacancy on it for a rod at $100. As 

 far as numbers go, there is no river in Canada of the 

 same size that can beat it ; ten, twelve, and fifteen fish 

 are frequently killed by one rod in the day. Fish are 

 small, averaging about 11 Ibs. The fish can only ascend 

 as far as the Grand Falls, viz. about 20 miles. This is 

 a lovely spot; the falls are about 80 feet in height, 

 and underneath them the water froths and foams through 

 a gorge or cleft in the rocks, which rise almost perpen- 

 dicularly to a great height. Farther down the cliffs 

 suddenly recede and form a broad basin, in which the 

 waters are as smooth and unruffled as a mill-pond. The 

 casts are within the gorge, and just at the mouth of the 

 basin. The fish fall back into the deep water during 

 the heat of the day, but take the fly freely in the pools 

 in the mornings and evenings. Twenty- four fish have 

 beon taken here by one rod in the day. At a place 

 called the Pabineau Falls, 8 miles from the mouth, there 

 is another famous pool, perhaps the best one in Canada 



