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which contains several rare plants. The Bay of Quinte is 

 finely adapted for boating, either rowing or sailing, for a 

 distance of about twelve miles to the westward and about 

 forty miles in* an easterly direction. There is very good 

 fishing, especially for the troller ; pike, bass, dor6, perch, 

 Oswego bass or sheepshead, and chub, being the principal 

 fish. The bass and chub, which latter attain a larger size 

 here, readily rise to the fly, and very good sport may be had 

 with them if the day is at all cloudy. The most attractive 

 fly in these waters seems to be an artificial bumble-bee or 

 grasshopper. For large bass, which abound here, but are 

 very wary, a large white moth in the dusk of the evening is 

 a never failing bait, and the fly called the sturgeon fl;^ 

 seldom (ails to attract. Good duck shooting may be had 

 here on the bay, and in the marshes at Ox-point, as well as 

 in A.meliasburgh, at the outlet of Roblin Lake. Woodcock 

 and snipe are plentiful in the late summer and early fall, and 

 plover abound along the shore and in the marshes. Occa- 

 sionally a fox hunting party is got up with beagles, and a 

 good run may occasionally be had, Ox-point never failing to 

 furnish a brush. Belleville is the southern terminus of the 

 Hastings Road, which extends north to the Madawaska 

 River, and there will no doubt be an increased settlement 

 along the upper part of it, as the country of the Upper 

 Ottawa becomes more thickly populated, which it cannot 

 fail to do if the proposed Lake Huron Canal be carried out. 

 About twenty-six miles north of Belleville lie Belmont, 

 Madoc, and Marmora, all of them townships rapidly rising 

 into note from their iron mines and fine white marble 

 quarries. This marble is of a pure whiteness, and admits 

 of a very high polish. It is of first rate quality, and is pro- 

 nounced by competent judges to be hardly if at all inferior 

 to the celebrated Italian Carrara marble. The quarries and 

 iron mines have both been lying in a quiescent state for 

 some time, until recently some eminent capitaUsts from 



