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return, unless re-populated by artificial means ; in fact, 

 expelled by dams and sawdust, and such like accompani- 

 ments of the human race. As with the Hudson, so it 

 would be everywhere, if preventive measures were not 

 adopted to stop these abuses, so glaring and unjustifiable, 

 that every well- thinking man can scarce fail to anathematise 

 the short-sighted policy that has formerly marked the 

 advance of civilisation. But it is not only fish in America ; 

 game has also thus ruthlessly been dealt with, till forests 

 and farms cease to re-echo the musical, plaintive notes of 

 the partridge, or the sonorous, drumming call of the ruffed 

 grouse. For our part, the most picturesque walk, the most 

 delightful rural drive, if not graced with the presence or 

 note of the feathered warblers, the cooing of the dove, or 

 the flight of birds, loses half its fascinations, half its en- 

 chantments, and consequently half the pleasures it would 

 otherwise afford. 



Supposing that you have passed a few days at Upton, 

 and enjoyed, with that relish which is so natural to a 

 sportsman, the manifold pleasures of a country excursion, 

 we should advise your now leaving civilisation and revelling 

 in the solitude of the pathless wood, where man seldom 

 intrudes and nature remains undefiled or deformed except 

 by the assassin hand of the axeman. If you be a good 

 pedestrian, we would recommend your feet as the most 

 enjoyable and natural method of gaining the portage where 

 the upper Androscogan has to be crossed ; but as you may 

 not be experienced in woodcraft and all the sciences that 

 teach the solitary hunter to surely follow a blazed path, 

 procure the services of Collins, an agreeable and obliging 



