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NE"W BRUNS\VICK. 



EW BRUNSWICK is a region of magnificent dis- 

 tances — an area of rem*arkable diversity, whose cen- 

 tral portion is a wilderness two hundred miles in 

 diameter, interspersed with mountains and lakes. 

 Great rivers penetrate its interior in every direction, 

 sending out branches and tributaries as numerous and in- 

 tricate as the ramifications of a tree, each one containing sal- 

 mon, or trout, or both together, and hundreds of which have 

 never been fished by white men at all ! Often the sources 

 of the main streams are so contiguous that a portage of only 

 a mile or two is necessary to pass from one to the other. 

 These are the sole thoroughfares through the wilderness for 

 traveler and sportsman ; and the angler who elects to spend 

 a vacation there need not establish himself in a permjment 

 camp at one pool alone, crowded for elbow-room, but he has 

 the entire range of the water-courses. Travel — progi'ess — be- 

 comes the business, and fishing at best pools only the mere 

 incidents of his voyage. The great Eestigouche is two hun- 

 dred miles long ; the Nepissiguit one hundred ; the Tobique 

 one hundred and fifty ; the Upsalquitch, a tributary of the 

 Eestigouche, ninety miles; and the Miramichi over two 

 hundred and thirty miles from its mouth to North Branch 

 Lake, which is the source of the North Branch, which is a 

 branch of tlie South-west Miramichi, which is a branch of 



