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there till the salmon came up, and when his sport began 

 to grow slack, to make an occasional visit to the upper 

 pool, shifting his camp to that vicinity as soon as he finds 

 the fishing better there than below. This will be no 

 trifling task, for the portage between the pools is about 

 three miles of the steepest and roughest walking that ever 

 it was my lot to meet with in a mountainous country, but 

 it will be attended with much advantage, for it is always 

 well to shift your tent occasionally, and you will be on the 

 spot where you are to expect the greatest portion of your 

 season's sport. 



In order to give some idea of what this may be, I do 

 not conceive that I can adopt a better course than to give 

 some extracts from the journal of an angler and a gentle- 

 man, which he kept during his visit to this river in the 

 summer of 1853, and which he has kindly placed at my 

 disposal.* 



"Left Quebec at 6 P.M. 7th June, 1853. Anchored off 

 the Groodbout river at 7 P.M. on the 10th. Kan into the 

 river at 3J A.M. On the llth arrived at the camping 

 ground at about nine o'clock. In the afternoon the 



* It may be well to mention that during the whole of this season, 1853, 

 the employes of the Hudson's Bay Company had twelve barrier nets across 

 different parts of this beautiful stream, some of them actually in the very- 

 best of the pools. A suicidal policy which can only be accounted for in one 

 of two modes, -either they wanted to disgust the gentlemen who were fishing 

 there, or being about to give up their post at the river, they endeavoured 

 to kill every fish in it. 



