ACADIAN FISH AND FISHING. 23a 



Dr. Gilpin, of Nova Scotia, speaking of many instances 

 of marvellous captures of salmon, tells the following 

 authentic story ; the occurrence happened in his own 

 time and neighbourhood — Annapolis : — - 



"Mr. Baillie, grandson of the 'Old Frontier Mis- 

 sionary,' was fishing the General's Bridge river up stream 

 for trout, standing above his knees in water, with an old 

 negro named Peter Prince at his elbow. In the very act 

 of casting a trout fly he saw, as is very usual for them, a 

 large salmon lingering in a deep hole a few yards from 

 him. The sun favoured him, throwing his shadow behind. 

 To remain motionless, to pull out a spare hook and pen- 

 knife, and with a bit of his old hat and some of the grey 

 old negro's w^ool to make a salmon fly then and there, he 

 and the negro standing in the running stream like statues, 

 and presently to land a fine salmon, was the work of but 

 a few moments. This fly must have been the original of 

 Norris's killing ' silver grey.' " 



THE EIVERS OF NOVA SCOTIA AND THE 



GULF. 



Elvers and streams of varying dimensions, but nearly 

 all accessible to salmon, succeed each other with wonder- 

 ful frequency throughout the whole Atlantic Sea-board of 

 Nova Scotia. In former years, when they were all open 

 to the ascent of migratory fish, the amount of piscine 

 wealth represented by them was incalculable. The 

 salmon literally swarmed along the coast. Their only 

 enemy was the spear of the native Indian ; and the 

 earlier annals of the province show the prevalence of a 



