66 SALMON FISHING IN CANADA. 



European eye, the roofs being covered with tin, which 

 shines and glitters in the sunbeams like silver, and reflects 

 their rays with intense brightness, causing it to appear as 

 if illuminated by some galvanic process to greet your 

 arrival. There are many things in this city and neigh- 

 bourhood which are worth seeing and remembering, and 

 there are excellent guide books, which give directions for 

 approaching them, and furnish many interesting memorials 

 connected with them, which can be pm'chased for a shilling 

 or two in the booksellers' shops, and from which, if I was 

 inclined to swell these pages, I might borrow details which 

 I have no doubt would be read with pleasure and instruc- 

 tion. But as my business is with the man who wants to 

 receive instructions as to the best mode of grettincr fish 

 in the best rivers, I shall pass on from the scenery, 

 politics, religion, and society of Quebec, to the matter in 

 hand. 



I have already mentioned that from Quebec the fisher- 

 man must set sail in his yacht for the fishing ground. 

 But it is just possible that the gentleman may not have a 

 yacht of his own or his friend's to embark in. WTiat then 

 is he to do? He must hire a schooner. And this he will 

 best be able to do with the assistance of some one of the 

 many respectable merchants or brokers of the city. There 

 are many schooners employed in the coasting trade and in 

 traffic with Newfoundland, New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, 

 Gaspe and the Magdalen Islands, of from forty to a 



