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lowing day, when a spring from the forest couch at four in the 

 morning, and the rouse of all hands, would show that " work in 

 earnest " had been undertaken. 



With a canoe, fish spears, and rods, we obtained for a short 

 time our food from the clear waters of the Mirimachi, and though 

 on one occasion we ate salmon there for three weeks daily, it' was 

 so good, so firm, so curdy, that we liked it as well at the end of 

 that time as the first day. We have cause to remember that 

 central river region, too, from having been lost for three days in 

 the woods about Mount Alexander*, and reduced to the last 

 extremity through the ignorance of a pretended guide, till the 

 Salmonia of the " Glad Eiver " set us up again. 



In the opinion of Mr. Perley, an experienced fisherman and 

 emigrant agent I encountered in New Brunswick, the best river 

 for salmon fishing there is the Nipissiquit, to which many fishermen 

 resort every year, some from New York. Sir Edmund Head, 

 formerly the Lieutenant-governor of New Brunswick, and now 

 Governor-general of British North America, an ardent fly -fisher, 

 was there, and very successful, and four officers encamped at the 

 grand falls of the Nipissiquit for a month, 15th of July to 15th of 

 August, took 180 salmon and grilses ; the largest was twenty-one 

 pounds. 



There is a river on the Gaspe side of the Bay of Chaleur, called 

 the Cascapediac, in which there are salmon of the largest size, 

 even up to 54 Ibs. weight ; the Indians sometimes use a harpoon 

 for those of forty pounds and upwards ; the ordinary pronged fish- 

 spear is not sufficient to hold them. 



Colonel Blois and Captain Campbell, of the 52nd Light Infantry 

 ascended the Cascapediac for forty miles in a favourable season, 

 and had rare sport. The Colonel, an accomplished sportsman 

 with gun and rod, took a salmon with rod and line of 36 J Ibs. 



* See L'Acadie, vol. ii. 



