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with muddy bottom clogged with lily pads and crowded with 

 reeds and aquatic plants ! At table, how pink they are in flesh, 

 and what delicious eating ! 



Bright, strong, and active fish in the crystal lakes of the wilder- 

 ness may glance with deserved contempt upon the flabby and sickly- 



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looking denizens of the dim dark pools, overshadowed by rank 

 growths of alder coppice, brown with the ooze of decaying vegetable 

 matter, or of the dull stagnant dead-waters, winding amidst stretches 

 of rushes and sedge and sponge-like sphagnum, yielding deep impress 

 to the tread of man or wandering deer. 



The eastern portion of the peninsula of Nova Scotia is dotted 

 with countless lakes and lakelets. Deep and intensely blue beneath 

 a fair sky, their shores fringed with rock boulders and generally 

 studded with wooded islets of all shapes and sizes, they do much 

 to diversify the monotonous scenery of the backwoods by their 

 picturesque beauty. 



There is good fishing in hundreds and hundreds of such lakes 

 embosomed in the Canadian forests, on many of which, perhaps, a 

 fly has never been cast. The number of lakes scattered throughout 

 the provinces of Quebec and of Nova Scotia almost staggers belief. 

 Many of the large and famous lakes of Quebec are now the property 

 of private clubs, but trout-fishing on thousands of charming rivers 

 and lakes is open to every one. Canadian lakes frequently stretch 

 away in long chains, presenting the attractions of exquisite scenery 

 as well as of good sport. By means of a light boat or an Indian 



