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dation of sea-bathers and fishermen, and of erecting 

 shanties for the shelter of sportsmen, on the side of a lake 

 about sixty miles off, which is said to be the som-ce of the 

 Eistigouche river and to contain multitudes of salmon and 

 large trout. Our party visited this piece of water, whichis 

 called Salmon Lake ; but there they found no salmon and 

 only a few small trout, the scenery however being very 

 grand : from thence they wended their way to a spot on 

 the Metapediac, one of the tributaries of the Ristigouche 

 river called " The Forks," where, under the guidance 

 of a civil and obliging man named Noble, in whose house' 

 they found sufBcient accommodation, they fished the streams 

 for some days without any success, though there were 

 salmon in the river. If good fishing is to be had here at 

 any time, it is in June, when the Indians do not use the 

 spear, and when the water is too high in the lower parts 

 for the nets to be worked effectively. Subsequently my 

 friends, after a long, hot, and harassing land journey, 

 returned to Metis, where, in spite of spears and saw-logs 

 they managed to hook and lose and kill a few large 

 salmon. 



The conclusion arrived at, by the friend, from whose 

 journal I extract the foregoing particulars, is that there is 

 no dependence to be placed on any account of salmon 

 fishing on the south shore of the St. Lawrence. Yet 

 it appears to me, from his own showing, that if an angler 

 happened to be at Metis at the proper season — June — 



