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NOTE TO TKIP TO NEW BRUNSWICK. 



Fish of all kinds are extremely cheap in the provinces. Salmon, 

 near Boiestown, sell for sixty cents apiece, regardless of size, and 

 grilse for twenty. In other places salmon are five cents a pound, 

 while smoked fish are worth one dollar and twenty -five cents apiece. 

 Lobsters are a nuisance to the fisherman, from their numbers ; and 

 herring are abundant. 



The expenses of a trip for two fishermen visiting both the Mira- 

 michi and Nipisiquit, and occupying a month, were as follows : 



Fare to St. John $12 00 



State room 1 00 



To Fredericton 8 00 



Extra to Wilson's 11 00 



Stores for the Miramichi 32 34 



Men's wages 60 00 



Extra to Newcastle 17 00 



Fare to Chatham 1 40 



" Bathurst 7 00 



Stores on the Itfipisiquit 29 95 



Men's wages . . . ". 50 00 



Wagon to the Round Rocks 4 00 



Extra on return to Chatham 14 00 



Fare to St. John 8 00 



" Boston 11 00 



Meals and other expenses 35 00 



Delicacies 10 00 



$306 69 



CLASSIFICATION. 



Every naturalist originates a classification for himself; thank 

 Heaven, I am only a sportsman, and shall merely refer to that of 

 Cuvier. He makes grand divisions of fish into the bony and carti- 

 laginous ; the former being separated into spinous and soft rayed, 

 the latter into those with free or fixed gills. 



Acanthopterygii, fin-rays spinous, including the percidm, or perch 

 family, which has the edge of the gill-cover, or fore gill-cover, or 

 both, denticulated or armed with spines ; the cheeks not mailed, and 

 teeth on both jaws, the vomer and palatines. In this family are 

 comprised the perca or perch proper, the labrax or salt-water bass, 



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