A CANADIAN RIVER 95 



right to erect stake nets. There seemed to 

 be any number of them, and one wondered 

 how any fish could run the gauntlet ; but the 

 nets were fortunately very ramshackle af- 

 fairs, and judging from the number of net- 

 marked fish claimed by the rod in the upper 

 waters, many of them must have smashed 

 their way successfully through the obstruc- 

 tions. These nets have, I believe, been got 

 rid of, and the rod-fishing must benefit 

 greatly thereby. 



Lord Lome used to make his headquarters 

 at a farm known as " Woodmans," in close 

 proximity to some good fishing water, no- 

 tably a pool known as " the Princess'," so 

 called after the royal lady as a compliment, 

 to whom the Quebec Government had ceded 

 the fishing rights to her husband. 



Above this point the river runs through 

 densely wooded and almost untrodden soli- 

 tudes. About forty miles from the mouth 

 it divides into two branches known as the 

 " Indian " and " Salmon " branches. These 

 lose themselves in the low mountains marked 



