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sometimes fogs and clouds prevail throughout the months of 

 August and September to that degree that the fishermen 

 cannot properly dry their fish ! On the south and south- 

 west the shore is much broken ; there are two or three har- 

 bors large enough for shallops, and one is known as Shallop 

 Harbor. Several small salmon rivers empty into the sea, of 

 which the principal are the Dauphine and Jupiter rivers. 

 These have been resorted to for several years by net fisher- 

 men, and have yielded from fifteen to thirty barrels of salmon 

 each, the catch vamng with the season. Only recently an 

 occasional angler, lured principally by a fondness for explor- 

 ing out-of-the-way places, has ventured to test the waters 

 with a fly. That fly-fishing is good, and that there are suflB.- 

 cient other attractions to the sportsman to induce him to 

 tarry long, is proved by the fact that a British naval officer 

 on furlough passed five weeks there last summer, landing 

 upon the island about the middle of July. 



Hunters and trappers have resorted to Anticosti for many 

 years, and been content to pass the long and tedious winters 

 there, rewarded for hardships endured by a plentiful return 

 of furs ; for the island fairly swarms "svith bears and fur-bear- 

 ing animals, which are protected from the inclement weather 

 by the dense growth of evergreens with which the island is 

 covered. 



Codfish appear very early on the banks of Anticosti, and 

 many fishermen resort there in the spring to secure a fare 

 before the fish "strike in" at places which they visit later in 

 the season. As many as one hundred boats have been en- 

 gaged at once. The most frequented spots are South-west 

 Point, Ellis Bay, Belle Bay, English Bay, and McDonald's 

 Cove. There are light-houses at Southwest Point, South 

 Point, West Point, and Heath Point, with wrecking stations 

 and apparatus ; and there are provision depots for wrecked 

 mariners at Heath Point, South Point, Ellis Bay, and Shal- 

 lop Creek. There is a steam fog-whistle at South Point, 

 which sounds once a minute in foul weather. It can be 



