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there are scores of tributary rivers abounding 

 with salmon. Many of these well up the north 

 shore have not been tested sufficiently to allow 

 of any just estimate of their capacities. The 

 Miramichi and Nepisiguit are probably the 

 best of those south of the Restigouche in the 

 Bay of Chaleurs. This river is a large and 

 beautiful stream running back between the 

 provinces of Quebec and New Brunswick, a 

 distance of over two hundred miles, with four 

 large tributaries the Metapedia, the Upsal- 

 quitch, the Patapedia, and the Kedgwick. It 

 flows in a generally northeast direction and 

 has in its entire course no falls or rapids which 

 a canoe cannot surmount. The protection of 

 this river was undertaken by the Dominion 

 government in about 1870, and the stream was 

 leased in two divisions to Mr. (now Sir San- 

 ford) Fleming and to Mr. Bridges. In 1880 the 

 riparian rights were decided by the English Privy 

 Council to belong to the owners of riparian real 

 estate, and were taken away from the Dominion 

 government. The Ristigouche Salmon Club has 

 since that time acquired by purchase, and by lease 

 from the provincial government of the fishing in 

 front of ungranted lands, a large portion of 



