t'aul, the descendent of the Huron, and a respected 

 l-Bsident of Lorette, informs me that the old man as he 

 calls him, " son grand pere," generally killed about 

 150 to 200 Salmon during the season — with the fly — 

 and an old resident on the river has told me that his 

 average catch was about VO during the season, others have 

 stated that they always had plenty, with a good supply 

 salted down for the winter ; the fish had abandoned the 

 river, and it is only within the last six years that they have 

 returned to their old haunts. 



The greatest number I have killed during a summer has 

 been from 15 to 18, fishing about three evenings a week 

 during a month or less, throughout the season, though I be- 

 lieve few persons besides myself have taken any ; conse- 

 quently no particular money-value can be attached to this 

 river. I am in hopes of seeing the '' artificial propagation'* 

 carried on on this river, which is well adapted for the pro- 

 cess. It is well worth the trouble and the slight expense 

 that would attend it, to throw a few thousand salmon into 

 this river every year. The Quebec markets would be well 

 and cheaply supplied from the rivers within this dis-" 

 trict. The average weight is from 10, 12, to 14 lbs., 

 though this year (1856) I had the good fortune to kill a 

 splendid fellow of exactly 18 lbs. and three feet long, a 

 clean run-fish. I had been fishing for ' a half hour with a 

 salmon-fly without getting a rise. Feeling my fly had 

 touched the branches of a butternut-tree, I turned my 

 head, and when about to throw again, I perceived a rise 

 in the water with the circle eddying, as though a stone 

 had been thrown. I thought that was impossible from 

 the position I was in. Waded ashore, off .salmon-'fly and 



