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with little risk of losing his fish when hooked. The game 

 is active, but there are no obstructions of rocks or brush, and 

 the angler has merely to take a run of the sand-bar, and 

 follow his fish until a victory brings reward. Sixty miles up 

 is Rigolet, a Hudson's Bay Company's post, where salmon- 

 fishing maybe enjoyed in the "Narrows," through which 

 the tide ebbs and flows with turbulent velocity. The 

 scenery along this bay is romantic, the shores quite densely 

 wooded with spruce, with two or three peaks of high eleva- 

 tion to diversify the landscape. But the musquitoes are 

 ravenous and swarm in clouds. Labrador musquitoes are 

 larger and more savage than those of Florida, and most in- 1 

 dustriously do they improve the short shining hours of their 

 summer probation. 



At the Narrows the hills on either side tower to the 

 height of eight hundred feet, and continue for a mile. They 

 then trend to the southwest and merge into the mountain 

 range which divides the waters of the Atlantic coast from 

 those that flow into Hudson's Bay. Above the Narrows the 

 Esquimaux Bay widens into a lake thirty miles long by eight 

 in width; Into this lake flow the Northwest-, Tomliscom 

 and Hamilton Rivers. The latter is at the head of the lake, 

 and is its principal inlet. The Indians say it has falls 1200 

 feet high ! At Northwest River is another Hudson's Bay 

 trading-post, and here is the finest salmon-fishing in this re- 

 gion. Following this river over a series of rapids, portages, 

 and falls, is a trail that leads to another post on Ungava 

 Bay, which is an indentation of the great Hudson's Bay. 



Certainly, the Labrador comes within the scope of the 

 angler's research; but its range is so immense, and ii$ field 

 so far beyond the reach of ordinary ambition, that any refer- 

 ence to its waters might reasonably be omitted in this work 

 except that some mention is requisite to make my Angler's 

 Guide complete. 



Of the fluvial geography of Newfoundland comparatively 

 little is known. It was only as recently as 1825 that the 

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