206 Fisuine in American WATERS. 
minion to make the tender for them. If necessary, on appli- 
cation, I will name a suitable person at the seat of govern- 
ment to whom they may apply with confidence. 
The course which I recommend to gentlemen of the States 
is pursued by sportsmen of Canada. The prices for the flu- 
vial parts of rivers are very modest. I belonged to a party 
of four anglers who hired the whole of the fluvial part of a 
first-class river for three hundred dollars for a single season. 
The leases of fluvial parts of rivers vary from two to six hun- 
dred dollars a year for from three to eight rods; and the 
price for guides or gaffers is a dollar aday. Canoes and pro- 
visions are cheap there; a first-rate canoe may be purchased 
for from twelve to fifteen dollars; and as for desiccated meats 
and canned vegetables, with potatoes and eggs, also wines 
and diffusible stimulants, they do not cost more than half the 
sum demanded for them in the States. Then, as an econom- 
ical summer trip of a month or six weeks, the cost is less than 
the expense of staying at a watering-place hotel, which is 
similar to a city hotel minus its comforts. If the lovers of 
field-sports in the United States can but be induced to try 
salmon-fishing, it will not be long before the rivers m the 
States will teem with the silver beauties. I have before me 
a score of five weeks’ fishing in the Godbout for four rods. 
The total count was 279 salmon, weighing 3116 pounds, or the 
average weight of each fish 114 pounds. They did not aver- 
age the use of more than three rods daily, or more than five 
days each week. Ihave seen larger takes, but this is a high 
score for salmon-flshing in any part of the world. 
As [have stated, an application to hire the fluvial or an- 
eling part of a salmon-river from the government of the Do- 
minion is to be for the term of nine years, and the prices of 
the rivers must necessarily advance as anglers multiply in 
numbers and America increases in wealth; for salmon-fish- 
ing, on the list of recreations which most deeply interest cul- 
tivated men, 1s esteemed a high art, 
