200 SALiVION FISfflNG IN CANADA. 



" ' The Bersimis Eiver is navigable to the falls, which are 

 thirty or forty feet high, and over granitic rocks. These 

 falls are distant thirty miles north-west, three quarters 

 north in a direct line from the south point of entrance, 

 but the distance is nearly forty miles by following the 

 windings of the river. The banks of the river are high 

 and precipitous, being either of granite or cliffs of sand 

 and gravel over clay. The basins and vallej^s between the 

 hills are filled with these last named deposits, which sup- 

 port a heavy growth of trees of the pine and spruce 

 species. There is good timber to be met with occasionally. 

 The breadth of the river varies from 100 to 300 fathoms, 

 and its depth is usually from 2 to 5 fathoms, but 2 

 fathoms is as much as could be carried up to the foot of 

 the falls. 



Hi * * * * goats can row up this river to the foot 

 of the falls.' " 



"Well, all that is good enough in its way," said the 

 Baron ; " but what we want to ascertain is, whether there is 

 salmon fishing to be had in this river." 



" All the information I can give you upon the subject is 

 to be found in the letter which I hold in my hand ; but it 

 is not confined to an account of the Bersimis. However, as 

 it speaks of another river or two which we shall jDrobably 

 visit, I think it may not be uninteresting to read the whole 

 of it ; so here it is," said the Priest. 



