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below the gorge said to be good at low water, but I did not 

 raise a fish in it. There are also three or four casts above ; 

 two of them are in- shore along the margin of the gorge, 

 where I had good sport in stopping over-night, killing two 

 fine Salmon in the afternoon, and two more next morning 

 before breakfast. I afterwards took three Grilse in one of the 

 same pools, when passing it at broad noon. 



Chain of Rocks, three miles above, is said to* afford good 

 fishing occasionally, though in camping here a night, and 

 fishing the three pools late in the afternoon and early in the 

 morning, I did not hook a fish, having only two faint rises. 

 This is a poor camping ground, much infested with flies, and 

 has no spring near it. 



Or and Falls, two and a half miles further on, and twenty 

 miles from Bathurst, is the last fishing- station for Salmon on 

 the river, the height of the falls preventing them from 

 ascending further. In former years this was a favorite 

 resort, when four or five anglers would find good sport for 

 weeks. But, alas ! two rods now are as many as the station 

 will well carry, and even then careful fishing and frequent 

 resting of the pools, for a day or two at a time, are required if 

 the water is low. The fishing here commences at least two 

 weeks later than it does at Eough Waters, and it is not until 

 after the 8th or 10th of July that one can be sure of sport. 



No description can convey an adequate idea of the rugged 

 sublimity of the scenery here. The wide shallow river, sud- 

 .denly contracted into a narrow channel, chafes and foams over 

 boulders and huge fragments of rock in its mad course, 

 and leaping two smaller precipices, comes thundering down 

 the main pitch, thirty feet, into a dark ravine, which in the 

 course of time it has worn through the hard rock. After 

 pursuing its way, and widening its channel through the 

 gorge, to some sixty or seventy yards, it flows with abated 

 current into a wide deep basin a mile and a half below. 



