ACADIAN FISH AND FISHING. 233 



Dr. Gilpin, of Nova Scotia, speaking of many instances 

 of mnrvollons captures of stilmon, telb the following 

 authentic story ; the occurrence happened in his own 

 time and neighbourhood — Annapolis : — • 



" Mr. Baillie, grandson of the * Old Frontier j\Iis- 

 sionary,' was fishing the Generals Bridge river up stream 3 



for trout, standing above liis knees in water, with an old i 



negro named Peter Prince at his elbow. In the very act | 



of casting a trout fly he saw, as is very usual for them, a 

 large salmon lingering in a deep hole a few yards from f 



him. The sun favoured him, throwing his shadow behind. 



• 



To remain motionless, to pull out a spare hook and pen- I 



knife, and wdth a bit of his old hat and some of the grey 1 

 old negro's w^ool to make a salmon fly then and there, he 



and the negro standing in the running stream like statue s, ■. 



and presently to land a fine salmon, was the work of but i 



a few moments. This fly must have been the original of ; 



Norris's killing ' silver grey.' " ^ 



THE RIVERS OF NOVA SCOTIA AND THE 



GULF. 



Rivers and streams of varying dimensions, but nearly 

 all accessible to salmon, succeed each other with wonder- 

 ful frecjuency throughout the \\\\y)\v Atlantic Sea-board of 

 Nova Scotia. In former years, when they were all open 

 to the ascent of migratory fish, the amount of jdscine 

 wealth represented by them was incalculable. The 

 salmon literally swarmed along the coast. Their only 

 enemy was the spear of the native Indian ; and the 

 earlier annals of the province show the prevalence of a 



