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up the line of the E. & N. A. Eailway, through Sussex Vale, 

 especially in Pollet Kiver, which is reached by wagon from 

 Anagance Station. At this point is the source of the Peti- 

 codiac Kiver, the only river at the head of the Bay of Fundy 

 to which salmon resort to spawn. Twenty-eight miles far- 

 ther on, at Moncton, is the great bend of the Peticodiac, 

 where can be seen the phenomena of the great " bore" or 

 tidal wave of the Bay of Fundy and the highest tides in 

 the world, which here rise seventy-six feet ! The tide flows in 

 at the rate of seven miles an hour, and the " bore" in spring 

 is sometimes six feet high. The rushing of this overwhelm- 

 ing wave is accompanied by a noise like distant thunder. 

 There is an excellent hotel at Moncton, which affords a 

 pleasant summer boarding-place for tourists. The shops of 

 the Intercolonial Eailway Company are located here. 



A few salmon are caught Vi^itli fly, in the rivers to the east- 

 ward of St. John, and a few in the tributaries of the St. 

 John River ; but there is very little opportunity for satisfac- 

 tory and successful angling south of the latitude of Frederic-' 

 ton, although salmon are caught by thousands in nets at the 

 mouths of rivers and all along shore, and constitute a very 

 considerable item of revenue to the Province. Indeed, the 

 whole Province has been a sort of close corporation since 

 the Government took the fisheries under its fostering pro- 

 tection and control. In Kings county all the principal rivers 

 have been set apart for natural propagation. In Victoria, 

 all the salmon rivers, including the noble Tobique and its 

 tributaries, are reserved for like purposes. And all the 

 streams of any account whatever, not thus appropriated, are 

 leased to private parties and guarded by chamberlains and 

 wardens to warn off trespassers and arrest poachers. In the 

 good old days a man could cast his line right and left ad 

 libitum in every river and stream, regardless of times and 

 seasons. Indians could spear in the sj)awning-beds, and dip 

 where dams and falls obstructed the passage of the fish, 

 maiming and destroying thousands of fish and countless mil- 



