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JIM TIOH OF THE RESTIGOUCHE AND MATAPEDIAC RIVERS. 



and in the Island of Anticosti, but practically salmon-angling- is con- 

 fined to the rivers of Canada East and those of the northern part of 

 New Brunswick, which includes the Miramichi. 



But few of the rivers we have mentioned debouch near a steamer 

 landing, and all others are difficult of access. To reach these latter 

 the angler must manage in some way to get transportation for many 

 miles over a rough country, where it is difficult to find horses, wagons, 

 or roads ; or he must charter a small sailing-vessel and run along a 

 most dangerous coast, carrying with him both canoes and men. The 

 Restigouche and Matapediac are reached with comparative ease from 

 Dalhousie, a landing-place of the Gulf Port steamers. This line of 

 steamers also touches at Gaspe Basin, leaving passengers just at the 

 mouths of the three streams flowing into it. These are the York, St. 

 John, and Dartmouth, called by the natives the South-west, Douglas- 

 town, and North-west. These rivers are among the best stocked in 

 Canada. The scenery about them is most varied, and in this respect 

 unlike most other parts of Canada, where one tires of the monotony 

 of mere grandeur and longs for the picturesque. They flow chiefly 

 through deep gorges, or canons, and between mountains, which 

 occasionally rise to the height of a thousand or fifteen hundred feet. 

 Beautiful lakes, filled to repletion with brook-trout, are found on the 

 high land between the rivers, which for quite a distance flow within 

 a few miles of one another. These streams are very rapid, and in 

 early spring are almost torrents, and yet they have very few falls 



