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of each. I stood just above the second falls, where the river 

 expands into a large lake with flat shores of meadow. A 

 little cold brook flows in just there, and you can wade out 

 knee-deep two rods from shore, and cast over a sunken ledge 

 which descends abruptly and perpendicularly to a depth of 

 twenty feet. The river channel flows under your feet, and 

 a single step will drop you from shoal water into a gulf. It 

 is a marvelous casting stand. 



Although trout can be caught in all parts of Nova Scotia, 

 as before stated, there are three grand angling centres or 

 divisions of superior excellence ; and these I designate, for 

 convenience, as follows : 



First, the Parrsboro or Cobequid district, which includes 

 the counties of Cumberland and Colchester. The rivers of 

 this district head in the Cobequid Mountains, and flow north 

 and east into the Northumberland Strait of the Gulf of St. 

 Lawrence, and south and west into the Basin of Minas, which 

 is an arm of the Bay of Fundy. They are extremely clear 

 and cold, and generally find their sources in lakes into which 

 the salmon go to spawn. On the Bay side they include the 

 Macan, Herbert, Apple, Stewiacke, Great Bass, Portapique, 

 and Folly Rivers. Apple River and the Portapique are the 

 best of the number, but the former runs through a dense 

 wilderness its whole length, and is accessible only from the 

 sea. Most of the others can be reached from Truro or 

 Parrsboro by a wagon road, which follows the shore of Minas 

 Basin. The St. John steamer touches at Parrsboro, en route 

 to Windsor. By this route several streams can be fished 

 successively, and lodgings can be obtained at intervals at 

 farm-houses along the road. The true way, however, of en- 

 joying a visit to this section is to hire a boat at Truro, or 

 Amherst, and go around the peninsuhi — the voyage occupy- 

 ing some four or five weeks. On the Gulf side the two best 

 streams are the Wallace River and the River Phillip. The 

 latter is a noble stream, and has been well protected from 

 illegal fishing for a number of years, and provided with passes 



