GAME AND FISH RESORTS. 20$ 



Queens County— 



The Wilktns River. Good trout fishing may be found here. Take steamer 

 from Pictou to Charlottetown (fare $2), where there is a Hotel kept by Mr. Davis, 

 who will furnish conveyance and act as guide to the river, fourteen miles distant. 

 Accommodations will be found at the house of Mrs. Baens. 



Wilkins River affords good trout iishing. Take steamer to Charlottetown, 

 thence via wagon road fourteen miles. 



Rustico. a marine hamlet on the Western Shore, is reached via the Narrow 

 Gauge Railroad from Charlottetown. There are excellent facilities here for boat- 

 ing, fishing and gunning. The Ocean House furnishes comfortable accommoda- 

 tions. The Hunter River contains fine trout, and the angler will find a hotel at 

 New Glasgow, reached by drive from Rustico. 



In Bunk River., reached from Charlottetown, the angler will find good fishing. 



NEWFOUNDLAND. 



Newfoundland has an area of 40,200 square miles. The coast 

 is indented by remarkable bays, inlets and fiords, of which there 

 are a great number. The interior consists for the most part of 

 vast rocky wastes covered only with moss or stunted vegetation. 

 There are numerous inland lakes and ponds, which with the 

 rivers constitute one-third of the surface. The island is reached 

 via the Halifax and Liverpool steamships which call at St. John's, 

 and by regular bi-monthly steamer from Halifax, fare $15, steerage 

 $5. The fur animals of the country are reindeers, wolves, bears, 

 foxes, of which there are the blue or Arctic, and the red varieties, 

 the latter including the cross, silver and black ; otters, beavers, 

 martens and muskrats. The hare of Newfoundland is the Arctic 

 hare, Lemits Arcticiis. It sometimes weighs fourteen pounds and 

 upwards. There is no other kind in the island. The only deer 

 indigenous to Nev/foundland, is the caribou. The game birds are 

 geese, brant, ducks, including black, " pie duck " or American 

 golden eye, long tailed duck, locally known as " hound," Ameri- 

 can eider, sea duck, king eider, harlequin, and occasionally the 

 surf duck, American scooter and velvet duck. The American 

 golden plover is very abundant in autumn, and the ring plover, the 

 piping plover, and the grey plover are all pretty common in the 

 fall of the year. Wilson's snipe is a summer migrant, arriving at 

 the end of April. The American jack snipe are periodical visitors. 

 Of sandpipers there are a large variety, Bonapartes and the yellow 

 shanked are very common. Of walrus, the Esquimaux is the most 

 common species. Of partridges, there are the Canada grouse, or 

 spruce partridge, the willow grouse, and rock ptarmigan or, as it 

 is locally called, mountain partridge. The rivers and lakes abound 

 in trout of three or four kinds, and salmon are abundant. A spe- 

 cies of fish larger than the trout is said by the Indians to be found 

 in several of the large lakes. 



