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some sixty miles. The intermediate country is settled and 

 cultivated, and there are straggling houses and clearings be- 

 yond Boiestown. The stage-road continues through the 

 wilderness from Boiestown, cutting off an immense bend of 

 the Miramichi, and strikes the Nashwaak Eiver at Stanley 

 Post Office, and Cross Creek Settlement. Thence it con- 

 tinues to the Eiver St. John and Fredericton. Sportsmen, 

 however, who are seeking wild adventure, will prefer to take 

 canoes at Boiestown, and ascend to the Miramichi Lakes; 

 then portage over to the Nashwaak, and descend that river. 

 The principal salmon-pools of alL the rivers are generally 

 near the mouths of brooks and larger tributaries. So, in the 

 Miramichi, we find the favorite fishing-stands are at Salmon 

 Brook, Eocky Brook, Clearwater Brook, and Bui-nt Hill 

 Brook, successively as we ascend. These are about ten miles 

 apart. At Grassy Island, near Burnt Hill Brook, the river 

 runs swiftly through a narrow gorge, and is broken into 

 numberless eddies as it strikes the rocks that are scattered 

 through the channel. Here there are some famous casts, 

 and upon a sunken ledge the angler can wade out to the 

 very edge of the deep waters, and cover the entire channel 

 with his line from his feet to the other side. 



After passing the portage into the Nashwaak Eiver, tlie 

 course lies through an undulating forest for thirty miles, 

 and then strikes the settlements which line both sides of the 

 river to its confluence with the St. John. A few minutes 

 suffice to cross the ferry to Fredericton, and then with mine 

 host of the Barker House all the comforts of civilization are 

 attainable, and all the more relished after a fortnight's 

 roughing it in the woods. 



Other principal salmon and trout rivers of the Province 

 are the Kouchibouquac and Kouchibouquasis (the terminal 

 "sis" in the Indian vernacular signifying "little"), the Ta- 

 busintac, the Tracadie, the Pockmouche, the Caraquette, 

 and the Upsalquitch. With the exception of the first two 

 and the last-named, these rivers lie between the Miramichi 



