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hook many a lively fish. That so little is known about the 

 fly-fishing in this fine stream, arises from the difficulty 

 of getting into it with a schooner of any reasonable size. 

 This operated in my own case, in more seasons than one, 

 and to my knowledge deterred a party of the 79th Kegi- 

 ment from exploring it in 1849. I understand, however, 

 that it can be reached on foot by a portage from Seven 

 Islands Bay, where there is the best anchorage and 

 shelter from all winds. But if you determine to reach it 

 in this way, then you must leave your skiff or cot behind 

 you, which the proper exploration of the stream will in- 

 evitably demand that you should take with you, so that, 

 upon the whole, perhaps it will be better, unless it is 

 otherwdse occupied, that you should proceed at once to the 

 Moisic. 



There is an establishment of the Hudson's Bay Com- 

 pany at the Bay of Seven Islands, the scenery of which 

 is grand and sublime, though lonely, wild, and desolate. 

 The Post, as it is called, is built upon a low sandy beach 

 at the bottom of the bay ; it is flanked right and left by 

 abundance of small sized trees. In the background 

 rugged and lofty hills, broken occasionally by the bright 

 gleams from a waterfall, stretch away into the horizon 

 as far as the eye can see ; and in front seven towering 

 islands, from whence the Bay and Post derive their name, 

 obstruct the view, affording only a partial glimpse of the 



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