334 SALMON FISHING IX CANADA. 



and red shirts. Cataracts, four miles from the mouth of the 

 Aroostook, prevent the salmon going higher, and here they meet 

 their death in the pools below the picturesque falls. 



We come now to the Grand Falls of the St. John, beyond 

 which salmon cannot pass from the sea; Poling the canoe up 

 stream, the water becomes turbid and foam -covered as the rapids 

 below the falls are approached. A most romantic winding chasm 

 of two miles of rushing waters extends downwards from the 

 white sheet of the falls. From 150 to 200 feet high are the 

 rocky and perpendicular sides of the chasm ; deep pools are seen 

 there, and, in looking from the edge of the precipitous rocks, 

 logs sail and tumble round the pools, and salmon are leaping 

 there safe from the approach of men hungering after them. 



On the eastern side of this interesting scene the writer secured 

 by purchase 200 acres of fine land, which, still covered with 

 noble trees, may one day be turned to good account. With due 

 protection to the St. John and its tributaries, the king of the finny 

 tribes may never be absent at the proper season from the tables of 

 the inhabitants of the new settlement of Colebrook, on the west 

 side of the Grand Falls. 



Touching sport in Prince Edward's Island we will say a word. 

 There is no good salmon fishing in this island with the rod and 

 fly. Salmon are netted in St. Peter's Bay, though not in great 

 quantities ; but the trout fishing is very good in Prince Edward's 

 Island all over it, and no better place than the entrance of the 

 harbour of Charlotte town, at Lobster Point, three miles from 

 the town. West Eiver, Bonshaw, New Glasgow, St. Peter's, 

 Dunk River, Bedeque, and many other places are very good, and 

 approachable with wheeled carriages ; sleeping and feeding ac- 

 commodation are also to be had there, " The lush," elegantly 

 added an islander, " is to be brought from Charlotte Town, and 

 during the summer months many persons visit our island for the 



