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The next salmon river of importance up tlie Bay is the 

 River Jacquet, a rapid stream scarcely navigable for canoes, 

 leased a year ago by Dr. J. Gr. Wood, of Poughkeepsie. Then 

 comes the River Charlo, with its two branches, a stream 

 much resorted to by the anglers of Dalhousie. A few miles 

 further is Eel River, which, although not a salmon stream, 

 affords fair trout-fishing, and a good run of sea-trout {Salmo 

 trutia), in their season. Across the mouth of this river, the 

 sea has thrown a natural sand-bar a mile in length, and 

 formed a large shallow basin, surrounded by low swampy 

 ground, wliiclj in the fall of the year actually swarms with 

 wild fowl of eveiy variety. Here they stop to feed on their 

 migrations to the south — wild geese, brant, ducks, curlew, 

 snipe, sheldrakes, and the entire family of web-footed, yellow- 

 legged, and long-billed water birds. Next comes the majestic 

 Restigouche, which forms the boundary line for seventy miles 

 between New Brunswick and Canada ; and on the opposite 

 side of the Bay are the several salmon streams of Gaspe — the 

 Great and Little Nouvelle Rivers, the Caspapediac, the Es- 

 cuminac, Bonaventure, and Port Daniel. The Caspapediac 

 is leased by Mr. Sheddon, of Montreal. 



The Gaspe district is scantily wooded, and its shores are 

 occupied chiefly by fishing stations. Carleton is a pretty 

 town, to which a little steamer sometimes runs from Dal- 

 housie, rendering the salmon streams in the vicinity quite 

 accessible. When the sun shines, its white cottages, nestling 

 at the foot of the majestic Tracadiegash Mountain, glisten 

 like snow-flakes against the sombre background, and gleam 

 out in lovely contrast with the clouds that cap the summit 

 of this outpost sentinel of the Alleghany range. Dalhousie 

 is situated on a headland, and with Maguasha Point guards 

 the entrance of the Restigouche, which is here three miles 

 wide. To a person approaching by steamer from the sea, 

 is presented one of the most superb and fascinating pan- 

 oramic views in Canada. The whole region is mountainous, 

 and almost precipitous enough to be Alpine ; but its gran-: 



