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to watch some salmon ' leap ', where fish after fish springs in the air, 

 nearly all falling backwards, again to renew the struggle, while few 

 only, with a wriggle of the tail, sail off triumphantly, bound for 

 the pleasant pools in the upper reaches of the river, which their less 

 agile comrades have been unable to achieve. The successful 

 vault appears to be a nicely calculated arrival at the curve of the 

 sheet of falling water at a correct distance below the escarpment, 

 where, after a slight pause, when the body trembles violently all 

 over, a rapid quivering of the pectoral fins and tail puts the finishing 

 touches on the supreme effort. The heart of the honest angler is 



SALMON LEAPING THE FALLS OF WHITE BEAR RIVER. 

 Photograph by Dr. R. T. Morris, New York. 



often lacerated by the treatment accorded to this noble fish in 

 the inland waters of the Province of Nova Scotia. The time will 

 come when, as has happened in the State of Maine, the policy of 

 annihilation will be succeeded by expensive re-stocking of the 

 salmon streams. An ounce of precaution in this instance would 

 be worth, however, many pounds of cure in the shape of expensive 

 Government Fish Commissions and slow rehabilitation. 



The interior of this province is occupied by a number of lake 

 basins, from each of which a picturesque salmon stream seeks the 

 Atlantic. Within easy reach of the City of Halifax there are, 

 to the westward, Indian River, Gold River, Ingraham, East Riv r cr, 



