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eastern shores of New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, and Prince 

 Edward's Island, to the vast mouth of the St. Lawrence, and 

 up that splendid river and its great northern tributaries, the 

 Mingan and the Saguenay, as far almost as to the heights of 

 Cape Diamond, offer the largest temptations to the adven- 

 turous angler. 



Within a few years, indeed, the rivers close around Quebec, 

 the Montmorenci, the Chaudiere, and the Jacques Cartier, 

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

 morning from the Plains of Abraham, set the fisherman on 

 waters where he could confidently count on filling his creel, 

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

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

 St. Lawrence to the mouth of the Saguenay or the lordship of 

 Mingan, has now become necessary to ensure good sport. 



In the upper 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 are 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 circumstances. 



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 shut them out from these waters. I may here observe 

 that it is very greatly to be deplored that, as 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 



