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registering a club membership of over one hundred, and 

 numerous camps; and now the eye of the keen angler is 

 directed to the rivers on the eastern coast of Labrador, 

 which lie far beyond the line of popular ambition hitherto. 

 It will not be long before the Salmon rivers of Byron's Bay 

 and Sandwich Bay will be visited, while the Tomliscom, the 

 Hamilton, and the Nor'west Rivers of the Great Esquimaux 

 Bay, in latitude 55 degrees, which I described in "Harper's 

 Magazine" thirty years ago, will become places of annual 

 resort for anglers. These last named are fine Salmon rivers, 

 and the presence of two very considerable Hudson Bay ports 

 in the vicinity, within thirty miles of each other, relieves a 

 sojourn on the Bay of an asperity of aspect which might other- 

 wise seem hyperborean to a man who has never traveled in 

 higher latitudes. 



The Esquimaux who live on the Bay number perhaps fifty 

 souls now, though once they were a community of seven 

 hundred; and each season they salt and smoke a large quantity 

 of Salmon for their own use and the consumption of the Hud- 

 son Bay employes at Rigolet and Nor'west River stations. 

 These two stations are headquarters for the Southern District 

 of Labrador. Fort Chimo, on Ungava Bay, is the head- 

 quarters of the Northern District, and there is a regular trail 

 from one to the other over the great dividing ridge which 

 separates the two. This ridge, or mountain range, extends 

 southwesterly across the Labrador to the Saguenay River, 

 touching it at or near Lake St. John. It is a most elevated 

 plateau, diversified by peaks and knobs, among which Mount 

 Nat Mokome (the Clerk) and an extensive range known as 

 the Mealy Mountains, are conspicuous, nearly all bare of 

 verdure, and snow-capped perpetually. I could write an 

 entire chapter about the physical geography of this region, 

 so little known, but this fishing paper is not a suitable place 

 for it. However, it is pertinent to state that on this vast 

 water-shed, which traverses a region containing 450,000 square 



