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miles from the Atlantic, the first rapids and pools where 

 fly-fishing may be practised occur in the vicinity of 

 Boiestown ; here the sport afforded, in a good season, is 

 little inferior to that which may be obtained on the 

 Nepisiguit. One of its branches, also, the north-west 

 Miramichi, is worth a visit; and I have known some 

 excellent sport obtained on it in passing through to the 

 Nepisiguit, from which river the water communication 

 for a canoe is interrupted but by a short portage through 

 the forest. 



It is, however, on entering the southern expanses of 

 the beautiful Bay of Chaleurs that we first find the 

 paradise of the salmon-fisher ; and here still, despite 

 of many foes — innumerable stake-nets which debar his 

 entrance, the sweeping seine in the fresh water, the torch 

 and spear of the Indian tribes, and lastly, and perhaps 

 the least destructive agent, the tackle of the fly-fisher- 

 man — the bright foamy waters of the Nepisiguit, the 

 Eestigouche, the Metapediac, and many others, repay the 

 visitor and sportsman, whence or how far soever he may 

 have come, by the sport which they afford, and by the 

 wild scenery which surrounds their long course through 

 the forests of New Brunswick. 



And, first, of the Nepisiguit. This now famous river, 

 w^hich of late years has attracted from their homes 

 many visitors, both English and American, to spend a 

 few weeks in fishing and pleasantly camping-out on its 

 banks, discharges its waters into the Bale des Chaleurs 

 at Bathurst, a small neat town, easily accessible from 

 either Halifax, St. John, or Quebec, and by various 

 modes of conveyance — coach, rail, and steamboat. Kising 

 in the centre of northern New Brunswick, in an elevated 



