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the two join, and one can sit upon the railroad 

 bridge and count the noble fish in the lucid depths 

 below. The valley here is fertile, and has a culti- 

 vated, well-kept look. 



We passed the Jacquet, the Belledune, the Ne- 

 pissisquit, the Miramichi ("happy retreat") in the 

 night, and have only their bird-call names to report. 



