that we vfill pass are the Canard, Black, and the Mutray 

 Rivers ; the two former of little moment, though salmon 

 are caught in each of them. The Black River is very 

 turhid and filled with tioulders. Here again the spear is 

 brought into use. Along the bays and creeks, salmon 

 were formerly taken in large quantities, and now and 

 then a few are taken in the pickeries that are placed 

 along the shore. While at Murray Bay, two years since, 

 I saw several taken ; one a splendid fellow of thirty 

 pounds weight. The fish was cut in four parts and divi- 

 ded between the owners of the fishery, each being a 

 share-holder. 



MuRRAT RivEK, — Called by the inhabitants La Riviere 

 Saumony, from the immense quantities of /fish that were 

 formerly taken in the bay and river. I have been in- 

 formed by John Nairn, Esq., Seignior of Mai Bale, that from 

 two to three hundred fish were taken at a tide, and that 

 he himself had killed about fifty fish in three or four days 

 with the fly. 



In no place have the evils arising from the erection of 

 miU-dams been better evidenced than on this river, and to 

 which I would direct the reader's particular attention. 

 The Seignior told me that he had leased the river to a 

 party of Americans ; that they had built a miU-dam at 

 the Chute, about nine miles from the mouth of the river, 

 and in a short time the whole district found the evil 

 effects resulting from the erection of the dam ; in the total 

 destruction of the river so far as the salmon were con- 

 cerned. They abandoned the river entirely, not a fish 

 was to be seen. The evil continued several years. At 

 last — fortunately or unfortunately as the case may be, 

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