SALMON LuCAl.ITIKS, 295 



CiUitcru sliorcs ul New IWuiiswii-k, No\a Scotia, ami Prince 

 Etlwaril's Islaml, to the vast mouth of the St. Lawrence, and 

 up timt splcnilid river and its f^reat northern tributaries, the 

 Miuf^an and the Saj^nienay, as far ahnost as to the heij^hts of 

 Cape Diamond, otler the lar|^est temptations to the adven- 

 turous anj;hM-. 



\N ithin a lew years, indeed, the rivers close around Quehec, 

 the Montmorcnci, the ("haudiere, and the .laccpies ('artier, 

 abounded with Sahnon ; and a drive of a few hours in the 

 morning from tiie Plains of Abraham, set the lislierman on 

 waters where he could confidently count on tilling his creel, 

 even to overflowing, before night-fall ; but latterly these streams 

 have failed almost entirely, and a sail of nuuiy miles down the 

 St. Law rencc to the mouth of the Saguenay or the lordship of 

 Mingan, has iu)w become necessary to ensure good sport. 



In the uppir province of Canada, although Salmon run up 

 the river into Lake Ontario, and frequent many of the streams 

 falling into it from the northern shore, as the Credit and others, 

 they arc very rarely fished for or taken with the fly, and it is 

 said confidently that in the lake itself they will not take the fly 

 under any circumstauecs. 



Within my own recollection, Salmon were wont to run up 

 the Oswego, and so find their way into all the lesser lakes of 

 the State of New York, but the dams on the river, erected, I 

 believe, in order to the construction of the canal, have com- 

 pletely sliut them out from these waters, I may here observe 

 that it is very greatly to be tlcplored that, a.s is compelled by 

 law in the Scottish and Irish Salmon rivers, a small aperture is 

 not left in the rivers and dams, if they be above twelve feet in 



