THE SALMON FISHER. IB- 



Brook, which is a feeder of the Aroostook, into the 

 well-known Fish River chain of lakes emptying into- 

 the upper St. John. Then there is the old-time cir- 

 cumbendibus route up the Kennebec, through. 

 Moosehead Lake to the upper waters of the west 

 branch of the Penobscot, and down that stream 

 south to the main river. 



Oh! a wonderful land is the interior of New- 

 Brunswick, rising like an emerald boss out of the 

 encircling sea, with its central entrance culminating^ 

 in bald mountain knobs, studded with sparkling 

 lakes and crowned by enormous pines whose meas- 

 ured height has reached 138 feet ; lakes which form 

 the catch-basins or reservoirs of the many delecta- 

 ble salmon streams which radiate therefrom to every 

 point of the compass and are easily traversed from 

 source to source by the short portages indicated 

 above, whereby, having ascended one difficult stream, 

 you may reach and descend another in an opposite 

 direction. Many are the mid-summer weeks whick 

 I have passed alone on these traverses, or carries > 

 and these changeful rivers, in company of my faith- 

 ful Indians, with no other shelter from the dew or 



