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wooded with larch, 

 spruce, sycamore, 

 and small shrubs, 

 show less of clay 

 than those lower 

 down, and more of 

 pebbly ledge and 

 short sandy beach- 

 es, so that fishing 

 afloat is exchanged 

 p- for wading, which 

 insures a longer, 

 truer cast, and more ease in 

 landing the fish. The long sum- 

 mer days of a week may be filled 

 with excitement in whipping this 

 range of twenty or thirty pools. 

 So satisfactory is the work, in- 

 deed, that they are usually gone over several times on successive 

 days from a new camp established near half-way down to the 

 great fall, which separates them from the lower range of water 

 accessible from the original camp. This is pitched near a curve, just 

 below which the river receives two or three cool streamlets into a 

 circular basin, parted from its main course by a little stony tongue, 

 fringed with bushes, and about thirty yards across. This spring 

 pool is a favorite resting-place for trout on the way up, and they 

 have been seen literally paving its sandy floor, though its clearness 

 and exposure to the sun render them very shy. From this pool, one 

 hundred and six fish were taken by one rod in three days, thirteen 

 of which weighed over three pounds, and the largest five. 



Sunshine seldom interferes seriously with the sport in this region, 

 s of sullen, cold rain come on, leaving only an hour or two for 

 work outside the tent. Sudden thunder-gusts break over us while 

 afloat, driving us to the shelter of thick epinettes (dry spruces), 

 or even to a pent-house under the canoe, turned bottom up, and 

 propped on sticks. Sometimes a strange cloud of thin mist fills the 

 valley, that seems to tingle with electricity, and is pungent with the 

 smell of ozone. So sensitive the nerves become to that mysteriously 

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