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scored by the swamper's axe, and no logging roads 

 threaded the sequestered penetralia. To the birch 

 canoe alone wns there an open sesame. Now the wil- 

 derness is crossed in every part by railroads, and 

 one can obtain guides at stated points, and those 

 articles of the outfit which once had to be packed 

 the entire distance, making these forest trips vastly 

 more convenient, but to me less charming than when 

 comparative solitude reigned throughout. Steam 

 takes the romance out of the woods. I had rather 

 get sap in my eye, lying face up under the pinea, 

 than pamper my indulgence in the snuggest club 

 house apartment extant. 



It has been my very good privilege to navigate it 

 in every part before the rivers were leased, and 

 while the salmon fishing was free to rods ; and as I 

 consider New Brunswick superlatively beyond any 

 other district or known region of Canada or the 

 United States for this kind of diversion (canoeing 

 and fishing,) I have prepared the following itinerary 

 for those who wish to rough it, hoping it may prove 

 valuable. I give the old time routes retraced. Sir 

 Arthur Gordon, Governor of the Province, went over 



