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and its clear water and picturesque scenery, winding 

 through intervale meadows dotted with groups of witch 

 elm, and backed by wooded hills over a thousand feet 

 in height, entitle it to pre-eminence amongst the rivers of 

 the Gulf. 



Prince Edward's Island affords some good sea-trout 

 fishing, and, further north, the streams of the Bay of 

 Chaleurs and of both shores of the St. Lawrence are so 

 thronged with this fish, in its season, near the head of 

 the tide, as seriously to impede the salmon fisher in his 

 nobler pursuit, taking the salmon fly with a pertina- 

 city against which it is useless to contend ; nor is he 

 free from their attacks until a cascade of sufiicient 

 dimensions has intervened between the haunts of the 

 two fish. 



THE SALMON. 



{Salmo Salar.) 



The Salmon of the Atlantic coasts of America not 

 having been as yet specifically separated from the Euro- 

 pean fish, a scientific description is unnecessary, and we 

 pass on to note the habits of this noble game fish of our 

 provincial rivers. 



From the once productive rivers of the United States 

 — with the exception of an occasional fish taken in the 

 Penobscot, or the Kennebec in Maine — the salmon has 

 long since been driven, the last recorded capture in the 

 Hudson being in the year 1840. Mr. Eoosevelt, a well- 

 known American sportsman and author, states that 

 "the rivers flowing into Lake Ontario abounded with 

 them, even until a recent period, but the persistent 



