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of bet, to kill with liis own hand, three hundred salmon 

 in that river" the Nepisiguit discharging its waters 

 into Bathurst Harbor " during the month of July next 

 ensuing." I quote from a letter of my friend Mr. Perley, 

 the able and enterprising author of the " Sea and River 

 Fisheries of New Brunswick," who adds, on his own 

 account, " and with any reasonable luck as to weather, 

 would readily win his bet. He took last season, before 

 breakfast one day seventeen salmon ; and I have heard 

 of thirty being taken in a day by indifferent fishers." 



Think of this, ye ambitious spirits, who casting deftly 

 the long line and the winged deceit, pride yourselves on 

 basketing your dozen or two of half-pound trout at 

 Snedecor's or Carman's on the south side ! Think of 

 this thirty salmon in a day with the fly, and that by 

 indifferent fishers ! Of a truth, the Nepisiguit, the Eis- 

 tigouche, and the Miramichi, must be the paradise ter- 

 restrial, or aquatic rather, of the fly-fisher ; nor is it so 

 hard a region of attainment, for from Boston the good 

 steamer Admiral plies weekly to the city of St. John, 

 and thence, on application to the good sportsman whose 

 name I have recorded above, the pilgrim in pursuit of 

 piscatorial glory, shall be right easily, and with a good 

 will, forwarded upon his way. 



But to return from this brief though not impertinent 

 digression, although the salmon is so well known to all 

 the dwellers of cities on the Atlantic coast as to require 

 no description, yet for the benefit of inland sportsmen, 



