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To this list I must add, what is perhaps of all others 

 the best and most generally successful, viz., the "Saturday:" 

 a fly tried to perfection by Alexander MacKenzie, Inver- 

 ness, who is well acquainted by personal experience with the 

 salmon fishing of Canada. The body of the " Saturday" 

 may be either red, blue, green, or black, or of a very 

 favourite brown, which is best described as a cow-dung 

 colour, with a twist of red at the shoulder. The wings 

 are double, one pair of golden pheasant topping, and the 

 other having one side of mallard and the other of teal 

 or wood duck. A very small golden pheasant neck- 

 feather is laid flat over the wings, to which is added a 

 pair of antennae of blue and yellow macaw. A pair 

 of blue kingfisher feathers is sometimes considered an 

 improvement. 



The northern shore of the St. Lawrence is divided 

 by the Superintendent of Fisheries into the following 

 districts, viz. : from the St. Anne River to the St. Charles ; 

 from the St. Charles River to Murray Bay; from Murray 

 Bay to the Saguenay; the Saguenay River and its tribu- 

 taries; and from the Saguenay mouth to Ance au 

 Sablon. 



There are several good salmon streams above the 

 Saguenay, and that river itself, which is an outlet of 

 Lake St. John, a hundred and fifty miles up country, 

 and one of the wildest and grandest rivers imaginable, 



