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^ff HAVE fished a good many salmon rivers since 

 Hi thirty years ago, including many of Nova Sco- 

 tia and most of those on the Baie de Chaleurs. 

 I have also wet some flies in the Labrador streams 

 along the south shore, and also on the east shore as 

 far up as the Narrows at Kigolet, at the head of the 

 Great Esquimaux Bay in latitude 55 . But the best 

 sport of all I ever had was on the Godbout in 1879, 

 with that prince of anglers, Allan Gilmour, Esq., 

 of Ottawa, Canada. He owns the river and 5,000 

 acres of adjacent lands, and for thirty years at least, 

 up to 1880, he annually fished his unequalled pre- 



