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give an account of the only one I ever fished (the Nipissiguit) 

 at the end of this chapter. 



THE MIRIMICHI. A friend of whom I have asked informa- 

 tion concerning this river, gives the following account of it: 



" Dear N. The Mirimichi has been a fine Salmon-river, 

 but the net and spear have done their work upon it, as upon 

 nearly every other river in New Brunswick. Now it is 

 scarcely worth visiting for its fish, though its wild and 

 beautiful scenery can never fail to attract admiration. 



" The first cast as you ascend is ten miles beyond Boies- 

 town, and is called 'Salmon Brook.' I would advise any 

 angler to pass it by, for if I live to be a hundred, I shall 

 never forget the welcome given me by the flies and mosqui- 

 toes of that wretched place. I here, for the first time in my 

 life, saw a Grilse. I fished here two days and killed nothing. 

 We then broke up camp and pushed on eight miles to 

 'Rocky Bend,' the next cast, reaching it in the evening. 



" The next morning about half a mile below the camp, I 

 hooked and killed my first Salmon, a fresh-run fish of eleven 

 and a half pounds, and I then thought it the most beautiful 

 thing I had ever seen. The next day I killed my first Grilse 

 of three and a half pounds, which is their average weight in 

 this river. 



"My next move was up to 'Clear Water,' which is really 

 the first camp that an angler should make after leaving 

 Boiestown. The camping is on the left bank of the river, 

 just above 'Clear Water' brook, and is a beautiful place. 

 This is a little bit of meadow-land, covered with grass and 

 flowers, and the view to the westward, up and across the 

 river, extensive and fine. The hills are five or six hundred 

 feet high, and as the points at the river-bends incline gradu- 

 ally, upon looking up or down stream, one can see three or 



