390 AMERICAN ANGLER'S BOOK. 



The next river, which enters oq the south side of the town, 

 I had the pleasure of fishing last summer, spending six 

 pleasant weeks in doing so ; it is the most famous river in 

 the province. I will describe it at length. 



The Nipissiguit.* — The usual route in going direct from 

 "the States" to this river, is from Boston to St. John, New 

 Brunswick, by one of the boats of the International line, 

 which leaves every Monday and Thursday, at 8 A. m. ; the 

 time occupied in the passage is from twenty-eight to thirty- 

 four hours. The cars leave St. John every morning, and 

 arrive at Shediac, on the Northumberland Strait, a distance 

 of a hundred and ten miles, to dinner. From thence to 

 Chatham, eighty miles, and from Chatham to Bathurst, forty- 

 five miles, the only reliable means of conveyance is in an 

 open stage, and even then one may have to take an extra or 

 lie over a day at Chatham. A boat leaves Shediac for 

 Chatham every two weeks, on the arrival of the cars from 

 St. John ; and if the day can be ascertained from the St. John 

 papers before leaving home, one may avoid a night on the 

 road. The roads of New Brunswick, however, being kept in 

 repair by the government, are hard and level, and the horses, 

 generally two in a team, much " better to go" than one would 

 suppose from their appearance. 



Bathurst is situated at the mouth of the Nipissiguit, at the 

 head of a beautiful little harbor on the Bay of Chaleurs, 

 where Thomas Baldwin, a clever, obliging Irishman, keeps a 

 good hotel, and will give an angler all the assistance and 

 information he requires. Bela Packard, an intelligent Ameri- 



* It appears strange that the author of " Sahnon-Fishing in Canada." in 

 giving the foregoing list of rivers, including those flowing into the Bay of 

 Chaleurs, should omit the Nipissiguit, which, although in New Brunswick, 

 is fished every summer, by anglers from Quebec. Nor does he mention 

 the Tittigouche, in the same Province. 



