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speak more particularly of those of which I have received 

 authentic intelligence from trustworthy friends, or which 

 have been written of by credible authors ; and to treat 

 more particularly still of those which I have myself visited, 

 and which I have myself fished. 



With regard to the Jacques Cartier, the St. Charles, the 

 St. Joachim, the Petite Riviere, and the Riviere du Grouffre, 

 I shall not make any further observation than that I do 

 not believe that any one of them is worthy the attention 

 of a person who comes from a distance for the purpose of 

 fishing ; either from the circumstance of their being already 

 over fished, as they can be reached from Quebec by land, 

 or from their having been seriously injured by the in- 

 judicious manner in which milldams have been erected 

 across them. 



The next in order, as we descend the river St. Law- 

 rence from the westward, is the Jumeaux at Malbaie, 

 a river which I have never had the good fortune to visit, 

 but which has been so well described by that accomplished 

 gentleman and skilful sportsman Dr. Henry, that I make 

 no apology for extracting the follomng from his "Port- 

 folio." 



"Ninety miles below Quebec, and nearly opposite 

 Kamouraska on the south shore, the Malbaie river enters 

 the St. Lawrence. After an impetuous mountain course of 

 two hundred miles, it escapes through a gorge, tumbles 

 down a granite rock, and then winds very prettily along a 



