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Fishing in New Brunswick, #c. By Colonel Sir J. E. ALEXANDER, 

 F.K.G.S. and R.A.S., 14th Regiment. 



THE bright and sparkling forest streams of New Brunswick 

 now dashing noisily among rocks, then gliding swiftly between 

 deep banks or collected in lake-like pools overshadowed by great 

 " monarchs of the woods," afford a most agreeable change to a 

 fisherman from Britain, experienced only in overfished streams, 

 and sometimes finding it difficult to cast his line across unpreserved 

 waters in the course of summer wanderings. 



We recall with intense delight our sensations whilst exploring 

 and surveying for government undescribed solitudes and rivers of 

 New Brunswick, " till now ungraced in story," and listening to 

 the rushing sound of the wind in the tops of the tall pines, whilst 

 they gave out their fragrant odours, the ground the while springy 

 with moss and leaves, and wild flowers of beautiful hues decking 

 the open glades. The limbs " hard as wires," from constant 

 exercise, and the feet uncramped in the brown soleless moccasin, 

 our upper man in " wide awake " and red flannel shirt, axe in 

 hand, and compass in belt, fatigue was not thought of till after 

 hours of toil, and till it was time to cut poles and strip bark for 

 the evening camp, to boil the kettle and excite the appetite by 

 the process of frying on the cheerful blaze of the log fire. Then, 

 with the head pillowed on a haversack, containing a change of 

 raiment, the t blanket laid on twigs of the silver fir, and feet to the 

 fire, delicious repose would prepare one for the duties of the fol- 



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