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a good salmon river, and in which I have no doubt there 

 are salmon and plenty of sea trout. Indeed, the Indian 

 family we found there were encamped upon its banks with 

 a view of fishing for trout, and had nets set for the purpose ; 

 but it is not a stream upon which I would recommend 

 any man to risk his season's fishing, at least until it is 

 more carefully explored than it was by me. 



The information I can give with regard to the River 

 St. Margaret is but scanty and unsatisfactory, as I have 

 never fished in it. One thing with regard to it is certain, 

 viz., that there are salmon in it, for every year the Hudson's 

 Bay Company have a detachment there fishing for them ; 

 and another matter, that the fishing is not far from the 

 mouth of the river, appears pretty clear from the following 

 account of it by Captain Bayfield : " The St. Margaret 

 Eiver is nearly in the centre of the bay of the same name. 

 This river, although a large stream, affords shelter to 

 boats only. It has a bar of sand extending three quarters 

 of a mile out from the entrance, and having several small 

 channels through it, with only three feet at low water. 

 Immediately within the entrance, which is 170 fathoms 

 wide, there are six feet, and only three feet can be carried 

 up to the low falls, which are over granitic rocks, and 

 three and a quarter miles from the entrance." Now, I 

 should say, that any tolerably expert angler who could 

 command the throw immediately above these " low falls " 

 at the proper season, would without doubt be enabled to 



