;j04 appendix. A. 



of tliC largest size and most delicious quality, and with Sea 

 Trout beside — although not in such hordes, as they affect in 

 the waters which fall eastward, like the Richibucto, into the 

 Bay ofGaspe. 



Below Quebec, the fishing is excellent, quite down to the 

 mouth of the St. Lawrence ; and in the Chaudiere, the Jacquee 

 Cartier, the St. Maurice, the Ottawa, and all the other rivers, so 

 far up their courses as they are able to penetrate, before reach- 

 ing impassable cataracts. 



In Lake OutPvrio they are taken abundantly with the net ; but 

 will not rise to the fly, or at least rarely, if at all ; and thence 

 tluough tlie Oswego river, they make their way into Cayuga, and. 

 if 1 am not mistaken, Seneca Lake also, in the interior of the 

 State of New York ; but in neither of these have I ever heard ol 

 their lieing taken by the fly. Southwai'd and westward of this., 

 the Salmon exist no longer ; although I belie\e, in fi)rmer times, 

 they were found so far south as to Virginia — certainly to the 

 Hudson and the Delaware — now, alas ! until the sportsman 

 strikes the Columbia and the streams falling from the westward 

 watershed of the Rocky Mountains into the Pacific Ocean, not 

 a Salmon shall he find westward of the Kennebeck or south of 

 the St. Lawrence. 



Trout of small size, but delicious flavor, swarm in all the 

 mountain brooks of the Northern and Midland States, until you 

 reach the Virginia Alleghanies. In the Western States, and 

 the rivers running thence northerly, into the Great Lakes ; or 

 southward and westward into the Ohio, Missouri, and Missis- 

 sippi, the Trout is not found ; but I believe it reappears in the 

 north-western rivers with an easterly course. 



Li Lake Superior and the Falls at the outlet of that grant! 

 sheet of water, they are again abundant, with a superb variety 

 of the Salmon — Salmo Ametfiyst'mus — so called from a purplish 

 tinge on his teeth — which, though in some respects analogous ti- 

 the Hiiclw of the Saave and Draave, and of the Norwegian and 

 Swedish rivers, is peculiar to these waters. 



There is another species of Salmon, generally known as the 



