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" On the 3rd of August, we returned to Quebec with two bar- 

 rels of fish, for distribution amongst our friends ; and I guess if 

 our utilitarian Yankee acquaintances had met us then, we 

 should have been less the objects of their derision." 



By these extracts, tlie reader will perceive that I am 

 fully borne out in my estimate of the value of the fisheries 

 within the districts we have already passed. 



Without attaching any value to the Elvers Canard and 

 Noir, but merely noticing the value of Malbaie and 

 Murray Eiver, we find the calculation to be as follows ■: 



Giving but 20 fish to spawn in safety in this splendid 

 river, and making the usual deduction for destruction in 

 river and sea, we arrive at the following results as the 

 value of the Salmon fisheries of this district : 15,000 fish, 

 at 2s. 6d. each, gives ^ISYS, and which could be conside- 

 rably increased, and I WDuld suggest to the Seigniors the 

 benefit they would derive from a proper care of this en- 

 chanting spot. 1 



The Seigniory of Malbaie was originally granted, to 

 John Nairne, Esq., Captain of Her Majesty's 78th Regt., 

 and that of Mount Murray to Lieut. Malcolm Fraser, of 

 the same regiment. Within these Seigniories, Dame 

 Nature appears to have played some comical pranks, — 

 foot-ball, for instance, on a gigantic scale, tossing the 

 hills too and fro, and such-like sports ; tumuli scattered 

 here and there, — one field in particular has several im- 

 mense mounds, — causing the beholder to imagine that 

 they were the burial-places of some great Indian warriors ; 

 indeed, so convinced were several persons that they were 

 so, that Mr. Nairne caused one of the largest to be cut 

 through to the centre, but could find nothing to prove 



