sport in an Unt&itched A merican Wilderness 



endure. In the immediate presence of a 

 civilization more than two hundred years 

 old, the wilderness of the Maritime Prov- 

 inces preserves its perpetual youth, shel- 

 tering, in undiminished numbers, its royal 

 inhabitants, — the moose, the caribou, the 

 black bear, the partridge, the salmon, and 

 the trout. Nowhere on this continent can 

 be found a more striking example of for- 

 est persistence than in the region east of 

 the State of Maine, between the Atlantic 

 Ocean on the south and the Gulf of St. 

 Lawrence on the north. The interior of 

 this peninsula is almost entirely undisturbed. 

 The few who have penetrated its depths 

 have found it a veritable land of enchant- 

 ment. 



On an afternoon early in September I 

 was sitting in the writing-room at Young's 

 Hotel, in Boston, awaiting the arrival by 

 express of an extra heavy rifle which had 

 been made to order. At six o'clock that 

 evening I took the cars for Fredericton, 

 the capital of New Brunswick, which has 

 been well described as " the quietest city 

 of its size north of the Potomac ; " and at 

 noon the next day entered the woods, 

 which extend, with scarcely a break, hun- 

 dreds of miles up to the Arctic limit of 

 timber. 



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