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distance of nearly 2,000 miles on each shore 

 of the river there is hardly a mile of coast-line 

 without a river or stream. Thousands and 

 thousands of lakes, all of which hold trout, lie 

 hidden away in the forest ; in the majority of 

 them perhaps a fly has never been cast. Above 

 Quebec most of the rivers have been spoiled for 

 salmon. 



" Trout-fishing on hundreds, I may say on 

 thousands, of charming rivers and lakes is open 

 to every one ; and under better regulations there 

 would be salmon-fishing for every Canadian 

 angler. 



" Of all summer residences that I have ever 

 seen, give me a camp on a good Canadian salmon 

 river. The banks of the river are all beautiful ; 

 in some places clad with forest that rises gently 

 from the river's edge, in others they take the 

 form of rocky terraces, many hundred feet in 

 height, rising abruptly from the water. Some of 

 these terraces are bare, others are clothed with 

 spruce and cedar. Here there is a beaver-meadow 

 at the mouth of the brook, surrounded by un- 

 dulating forest land ; there a naked hillside, 

 dotted over with enormous boulders." 



There is only one great drawback to river- 



