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with his canoe, left us with the intention of not returning, 

 because the flies were killing him. This morning, however, 

 he made his appearance as the weather was cold with a strong 



easterly wind and few flies. S y and S went to 



the upper pool, found it full of salmon, and brought home 

 thirteen, having lost several others. In the evening the 

 weather being cold and inclined to rain, I fished for an 

 hour, and hooked and lost a large salmon which carried 

 out all my line in the rapid, and broke my casting line 

 like cobweb." 



The party remained from this date till the llth of July, 

 chiefly fishing the upper pool, and killing day after day, 

 four, six, ten, eleven, twelve, and thirteen fish. In the 

 former part of the period dun flies were successful, in the 

 latter they found small bright flies more attractive. They 

 killed the greatest numbers in the upper pool, on the 28th 

 of June, 1st, 2nd, and 4th of July. They then set sail in 

 their schooner for Matane, where they found no fishing ; 

 from thence they proceeded to Metis, where they were 

 lodged upon the bank of a beautiful stream abounding in 

 salmon and saw-logs, the latter rendering it almost impos- 

 sible to kill the former ; in addition to which there was no 

 lack of hands -to use the nets by day and the spears by 

 night. 



Mr. Ferguson is the Seigneur of Metis, and speaks of 

 entirely removing a very detrimental dam which is across 

 the river, of building a commodious hotel for the accommo- 



