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which I had not long continued to tempt the denizens of 

 the Chute, when in making a throw a few inches longer 

 than the previous ones, it became fastened in a small 

 patch of moss which grew in a fissure about half way up 

 the high wall of hard rock, which stood at my back, and 

 against which, blinded by the smoke and rendered thought- 

 less by my eagerness, I had smashed no less than eight 

 beautiful hooks in less than an hour, and so managed to 

 lose five or six splendid fish which had risen at and taken 

 the baitless and mutilated fly into their jaws. 



Never since have I visited the Chute-en-haut, and rather 

 think I never shall, for since the time I write of, mills 

 have been erected on its placid waters, dams which 

 effectually and unnecessarily render it impossible for the 

 salmon to ascend the river, have been built ; and instead of 

 the solitary half-Indian half-voyageur and his wild but mild 

 and obliging son, there is now to be found at the Echemin 

 a population of nearly two hundred lumberers, wheel- 

 wrights, carpenters, and their families, with all the abomi- 

 nations of grog shops and grocery establishments. 



But this is a great digression from the object of this 

 chapter, which is to point out to the gentle inquirer which 

 of the rivers in Canada are salmon rivers. 



The only manner in which I can attempt to solve this 

 question is by giving a list of all the rivers which from the 

 best accounts I have been enabled to collect are salmon 

 rivers, with any observations which each may call for; to 



