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logging business was established, and it is 

 possible that late in the autumn fish may run 

 up to spawn — but during the entire month of 

 August, I personally never saw a salmon of 

 any kind in the river itself. 



Flowing out of the Campbell lake a few miles 

 away, its course is very rapid, and it falls into 

 the sea about one and a half miles north of 

 the hotel. 



The falls, impassable for fish, can be visited 

 in a long day's walk from the hotel. The dis- 

 tance is not great, but the impenetrable 

 character of the Vancouver forest makes the 

 walk a very fatiguing one. It is most regret- 

 table that no track has been cleared along the 

 banks, to enable the water to be fished and to 

 give access to the falls, which I am told are 

 very beautiful. 



I endeavoured to reach them by the river, 

 but spent most of the day up to my waist in 

 water, hauling my boat through the rapids, and 

 then only got half-way and saw no fish. 



Below the falls, there is a fine deep pool in 

 which Mr. Layard, who described his trip in 

 the Field, states he saw the great tyee salmon 

 " in droves." He does not say at what time 

 of the year he visited the falls or whether the 

 logging camp then existed. It must have been 

 late in the season, for he describes the swarms 



