112 THE SALMON FISHER. 



took themselves to the river-bed or bank, as the 

 straits of the route required. It was fitted up 

 sumptuously, with amplitude of cabin, kitchen, and 

 promenade deck, and many a royal load has it taken 

 up to the salmon pools the Princess Louise and the 

 Marquis of Lome, Earl Dufferin, Lord Stanley, and 

 many other notables of Great Britain and the New 

 Dominion, not to mention newly crested knights and 

 honorables of less account. 



Col. Wm. H. Rhodes, of Quebec, has had a snug 

 cottage at Tadousac, near the mouth of the Sague- 

 nay, for thirty years, and so had Robert Hare Pow- 

 ell, of Philadelphia, for a long time. Willis Russell, 

 Esq., of the Hotel St. Louis, at Quebec, built six fish- 

 ing cottages on the Marguerite tributary of the Sa- 

 guenay some fifteen years ago, which are annually 

 occupied and rented, and there one can perhaps get 

 more fish and more sport, with more comfort, than on 

 any other leased water in Canada. One of these cot- 

 tages has been occupied by Walter M. Brockett, the 

 Boston artist, superlative in fish painting, ever since 

 it was built. Lately, at the mouth of Lake St. John, 

 Messrs. A. B. Scott, of Roberval, and Wm. A. Grif- 



