CAPE BRETON. 



|ITH the exception of the Margarie River, which is 

 one of the most romantic and best-stocked salmon- 

 rivers in the world, and occasionally visited by an 

 ambitious or adventurous angler from other parts, 

 little is known by outsiders of the waters of Cape 

 Breton. There are other fishing localities so much more ac- 

 cessible, and attainable with less hardship and expense, that 

 they are generally preferred; while, if a party be found to 

 extend their researches to ultimate regions, they are apt to 

 go to the Lower St. Lawrence, whither the tide of inclination 

 now tends. Nevertheless, the journey to Cape Breton is 

 shorter in time, cheaper, and in all respects more comfort- 

 able than to the Lower St. Lawrence ; for its remotest parts 

 can be easily reached by shallop from Port Hood on the one 

 side, and Sydney on the other, with each of which places 

 there is communication by steamboat; while, for the voyage 

 down the St. Lawrence one must procure a shallop at Que- 

 bec, and sail along shore for hundreds of miles. 



A steamboat runs daily from Pictou to Port Hood, and 

 thence there is a stage journey of twenty-eight miles to Why- 

 kokomah, on Bras d'Or Lake, the Mediterranean of this land 

 of wonderful conformation. This is the only staging on the 

 whole route between New York and Sydney! Whykoko- 

 mah, like some village of Switzerland, is situated at the 

 head of a beautiful bay in the bosom of an amphitheatre of 



