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held up by piles of rocks at their base, supporting the 

 single wire along which messages are conveyed through 

 the province touching the latest prices afloat of mackerel, 

 cod-flsh, or salt, on the magnetic system of Morse. 



Indian guides to the pools, who are adepts at camp- 

 keeping, canoeing, and gaffing the fish for you, as well as 

 at doing a little stroke of business for themselves, when 

 opportunities occur, with the forbidden and murderous 

 spear, reside at the mouths of most of these rivers. Their 

 usual charge, as for hunting in the woods, is a dollar per 

 diem. 



The flies for the western rivers of Nova Scotia are of 

 a larger make than those used in New Brunswick and 

 Canada, owing to the turbidity of the water at the season 

 when the best fishing is to be obtained. They may be pro- 

 cured in several stores in Halifax, where one Connell ties 

 them in a superior style, and will forward them to order 

 anywhere in the provinces or in Canada. A claret-bodied 

 (pig's wool or mohair) with a dark mixed wing is good 

 for the La Have. Green and grey are good colours for 

 Gold Eiver. With the grey body silver tinsel should 

 be used, and wood-duck introduced into the wing. An 

 olive body is also good. There is no feather that sets off 

 a wing better than wood-duck. It is in my estimation 

 more tempting to fish than the golden pheasant tippet 

 feather. Its broad bars of rich velvety black and purest 

 white give a peculiarly attractive and soft moth-like 

 appearance to the wing. 



The harbour of Halifax, nearly twelve miles in 

 length, has but one stream, and that of inconsiderable 

 dimensions, emptying into it. The little Sackville river 

 was, however, once a stream affording capital sport at 



