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your traps, start for Liverpool so as to be there early on 

 Saturday; then embark in one of the Canadian line of 

 steamers, and if you are not in very bad luck you will be 

 landed safely at Quebec in nine or ten days; from thence 

 you will set sail in your yacht or schooner, and then 

 commences the romance and excitement of your expedition. 



But we must not go too fast. According to the above 

 given directions you would arrive in Quebec about the 

 middle of May, and though there is much in that strange 

 old city and its environs which is worth seeing, and some 

 trout fishing not far off, and that provisioning your ship, 

 and arranging your luggage will occupy more time than 

 you might reasonably calculate upon, yet I cannot but 

 think that the time would hang heavily upon your hands 

 from that time till the 7th or 10th of June, and I would 

 by no means recommend you to sail from Quebec before 

 that period. 



It is not easy to state exactly the time when the salmon 

 fishing commences in the Canadian rivers, for that depends 

 in a great degree upon the warmth of the summer, the 

 melting of the snows, and the subsiding of the immense 

 floods caused by the breaking up of the ice in the lakes in 

 the interior, which of course depends in a great degree 

 upon the weather. It may however be safely asserted, 

 that in seven seasons out of ten the height of the season 

 will be found in the last week in June or in the first week 

 of July. Excellent sport however is frequently to be had 



