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distance from the capital, " Halifax law," as the settlers 

 will tell you, is "no account/' The spirit of wanton 

 extermination is rife ; and, as it has been well remarked, 

 it really seems as though the man would be loudly 

 applauded who was discovered to have killed the last 

 salmon. 



Salmon are abundant in the Bay of Fundy, which 

 washes a large portion of Nova Scotia, but its rivers 

 are generally ill adapted for sport. Eunning through 

 flat alluvial lands, and turbid with the red mud, or 

 rather, fine sand, of the Bay shores, they are generally 

 characterised by an absence of good stands and salmon 

 pools. The Annapolis river was once famous for 

 salmon fishing. On its tributary, the Nictaux, twenty 

 or thirty might be taken with the fly in an after- 

 noon ; and the Gaspereau, a very picturesque stream 

 entering the Basin of Minas at Grand Pre, the once 

 happy valley of the French Acadians, still afibrds fair 

 sport. 



We will now turn to the rivers of the Gulf which 

 enter it from the mainland on the shores of New Bruns- 

 wick, Lower Canada, and Labrador, commencing with 

 those of the former province. 



Proceeding along the eastern shore of New Brunswick 

 from its junction with Nova Scotia, we pass several fine 

 streams with picturesque scenery and strange Indian 

 names, which, once teeming with fish, now scarcely aflbrd 

 the resident settler an annual taste of the flesh of salmon. 

 The Miramichi, however, arrests our attention as being 

 a noble river ; its yield and exportation of salmon is 

 still very large. Winding sluggishly through a beautiful 

 and highly cultivated valley for nearly one hundred 



