110 THE SALMON. 



Affords many salmon. 



Esquimaux .... 1414:9720 

 An excellent salmon river, somewhat run down. 



In New Brunswick there are salmon in the St. John 

 and its tributaries, but the best of the latter, the Nash 

 waak, has been closed with an impassable dam. From 

 St. John it is easy to take the cars to Shediac, and cross 

 to Prince Edward's Island, where there is magnificent 

 trout fishing, especially near Charlotte, and tolerable 

 accommodation ; or one can take the Quebec steamer to 

 Bathurst and fish the Nipisiquit, which is admitted to be 

 the best river in the province, or the Restigouche and its 

 tributaries, an excellent stream, but much injured by 

 spearing ; or the Cascapediacs, which furnish some sal- 

 mon and innumerable grilse. The Miramichi, between 

 Shediac and Bathurst, is a fine large stream. 



The streams in Canada emptying into the St. Law- 

 rence from the south shore, are hardly worth mentioning 

 as salmon rivers, having been ruined by mill-dams, with 

 the exception of those that empty into Gaspe basin, but 

 they all afford superior trout fishing. I would here 

 remark, that where the name trout is mentioned in con- 

 nection with the British Provinces, the Salmo Trutta 

 Marina, or sea trout, is always intended ; and the sal- 

 mon fishing spoken of is fly fishing. The rivers that 

 empty into Gaspe basin, such as the Dartmouth, York 

 and St. John, are leased, as also the Bonaventure, that 

 flows into the Bay of Chaleurs. 



As explicit directions for travelling through the 

 benighted regions called the British Provinces, the fol- 



