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resources. North Fork joins it above Lillooet, and 

 Seton Lake and Cayoose River below it. The ample 

 volume of Kamloops Lake and River debouches 

 into the Eraser at Lytton, and there are numerous 

 creeks between that and Keefer on the Canadian 

 Pacific Railway, such as Skuppa, and Neklipium. 



Salmon River, below Keefer, is a short spawning 

 stream, but too far off the coast to hold clean fish. 

 The Coquihalla River at Hope is more promising, 

 the distance to the sea being under 70 miles. It is a 

 fine sweep of water, intersected with creeks, at the 

 mouth of which there are good angling pools. The 

 principal tributary of the Eraser is undoubtedly the 

 Harrison River, 45 miles from the sea. At the rate 

 which salmon travel it is only about a day's journey 

 from Westminster. 



The Harrison rises in the lake of the same name, 

 6 miles from the Eraser. The lake itself is about 25 

 miles long. It is fed by the Lillooet Lake and 

 River. 



I stumbled on the Harrison on my way up the 

 Eraser, and k propos of the paucity of information, 

 no one seemed to know anything about its angling 

 qualities. It is as broad as the Thames at Hammer- 

 smith, beautifully wooded, with peeps of mountain 

 ranges, some of them snow clad. A steamer plies 

 between Chiliwack and Harrison Mills, passing 

 through the Eraser Caiion. 



As soon as the boat turned into the tributary, I 



