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CHAP. V. 



WHICH AKE THE SALMON EIVERS IN CANADA ? 



F all the questions which 

 could be asked with re- 

 gard to salmon-fishing in 

 V-, Canada, none can be of 

 greater interest to the 

 : man holding salmocidal 

 opinions and intentions 

 than the one which is the 

 title of this chapter. 



The first observation 



I shall make with regard to it is, that it is much more 

 easily asked than answered. The reason for which is 

 very plain and intelligible ; out of about thirty-five mag- 

 nificent streams which flow into the Gulf of St. Lawrence 

 from its northern shore, in all of which salmon are known 

 to abound, only nine or ten of them have ever had a fly 

 thrown upon their unexplored waters, and so it would 

 not be easy to declare what facilities they afford to the 

 fisherman. 



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