268 SALMONID^E. 



rock to rock in mid-stream. There lies a sunny gravelly 

 reach, here a dark circling pool teeming with rising fish, 

 while foaming waterfalls, sombre woods, bright open 

 glades, and still sweeps that lie eddying and darkling 

 below bold rugged cliffs, meet the eye at every point, 

 rousing to admiration even the most stolid mind. 



The coast is for the most part stern and wild, and 

 except at the mouths of the rivers, where a few dwellings 

 are generally clustered, is uninhabited. The interior, and 

 indeed even at a comparatively short distance inland, is 

 almost an unknown country, being trodden only by a few 

 wandering Indians, or the trappers of the Hudson's Bay 

 Company in the hunting season, and can be but little 

 altered in its aspect from the days when it was first 

 visited by the Norsemen and Icelanders under Biom 

 Heriolfson eight hundred years ago. 



On these tenantless banks, where the splash of leaping 

 salmon is often the only sound of life that breaks the still- 

 ness, the anglers form their bivouac after their day's sport ; 

 and stretched on the greensward enjoy their evening meal, 

 followed by the musquito-dispelling clouds of the fragrant 

 weed, literally the " pipe of peace," (for without it there 

 is none). As the shades of evening descend on the sur- 

 rounding forest the night-hawk* commences its wild evo- 



Gaprimulgus popetue. 



