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lowing day, Trlien a spring from tlie forest coucli at four in the 

 morning, and the rouse of all hands, would show that " work in 

 earnest " had been undertaken. 



With a canoe, fish spears, and rods, we obtained for a short 

 time oru- food fi-om the clear waters of the Mirimachi, and thotigh 

 on one occasion we ate salmon there for three weeks daily, it was 

 so good, so firm, so curdy, that we liked it as well at the end of 

 that time as the first day. We have cause to remember that 

 central river region, too, fi'om having been lost for three days in 

 the woods about Mount Alexander *, and reduced to the last 

 extremity through the ignorance of a pretended guide, till the 

 Salinonia, of the '' Glad Eiver " set us up again. 



In the opinion of INIr. Perley, an experienced fisherman and 

 eniigi'ant agent I encomitered in New Brunswick, the best river 

 for .salmon fishing there is the Nipissiquit, to which many fish emien 

 resort every year, some ti-om New York. Sir Ednumd Head, 

 formerly the Lieutenant-governor of New Brunswick, and now 

 Governor-general of British North America, an ardent fly-fisher, 

 was there, and very successful, and four officers encamped at the 

 grand tails of the Nipissiquit for a month, 15th of July to 15th of 

 August, took 180 sahnon and grilses ; the largest was twenty-one 

 pounds. 



There is a ri-\-er (jn the Gaspe side of the Bay of Chaleui", called 

 the Cascapediac, in which there are salmon of the largest size, 

 even up to 51 lbs. weight ; the Indians sometimes use a harpoon 

 for those of forty pounds and upwards ; the ordinary pronged fish- 

 spear is not sufficient to hold them. 



Colonel Blois and Captain Campbell, of the 5"2nd Light Infontry 

 ascended the Cascapediac for tbrty miles in a lavourable season, 

 and had rare sport. The Colonel, an accomplished sportsman 

 with gun and rod, took a salmon with rod and line of SGj lbs. 



* See L'Acadie, vol. ii. 



