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Along the north shore of the St. Lawrence there is a succession 

 of noble salmon streams (accessible from Quebec by steamer) 

 which are capable of yielding their dozen or score of fish a day to 

 each rod. The St. Marguerite, the Godbout, the Wacheeshoo, the 



SALMON LEAPING THE FALLS OF WHITE BEAR RIVER. 

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



St. John's, the Mingan, the Moisie, the Romaine, the Natashquan, 

 the Meccatina and the St. Augustine, are the most famous of these, 

 but all are under lease to private owners or clubs. 



Passing on to Labrador, this coast has recently been placed 

 among the ' accessible ' regions of Eastern Canada by the powerful 

 agency of steam, and should interest the angler looking for new 

 worlds to conquer. The country through which its streams run 

 is very peculiar ; rough hills of laurentian and granite rocks rise 

 near the edge of the coast, and extend far back from an elevated 

 tableland, for all practical purposes an unexplored and unknown 

 territory. The hills are bare and bleak, or if clothed at all with 

 wood, have nothing but stunted spruce and white birch. At inter- 

 vals, some large rivers, after winding along the plateau in lacustrine 

 expansions alternating with turbulent rapids, fall into the sea, as 

 a rule offering a very short course before the ascent of the salmon is 

 barred by impassable cataracts. The Forteau is a river well known 



