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Thus we see that in a few short years a decrease of 

 from three to four hundred per cent, in fly-fishing, and 

 one hundred per cent, by netting, has taken place. 

 Would the netting was put a stop to altogether ! or, at 

 all events, that some twenty or thirty fish were allowed to 

 spawn in the upper waters. 



And now we will give the reader a few extracts from 

 Dr. Henry's fishing excursion to the Jacques Cartier 

 Eiver ; 



" Having heard of a new place with the fine name of the " Re- 

 monx St. Jean," I set out on Monday morning to pay it a visit, ac- 

 companied by my host, Louis. At one part we were obliged to 

 creep for 3 or 4 hundred yards along a narrow and crumbling 

 ledge of the half-rotten limestone, with a high perpendicular cliff 

 over our heads, through which the numerous springs poured on 

 us like a shower-bath, and a boiling rapid under our feet. It was 

 rather perilous worlt ; for in some places the narrow footing, 

 which the edge of a decaying stratum afforded ng, had been worn 

 quite away, and we were forced to cling as we might to the side 

 of the precipice, something after the fashion of a fly on the oeil- 

 ihg. We had taken the precaution of putting our shoes in our 

 pockets, and the powers of adhesion of our wet woollen stockings, 

 like suckers, assisted us admirably. At length after a, long 

 struggle and some unpleasant slips, we weathered the point — cut 

 our way with Louis' axe through the forest, near the hole we 

 sought, and were rewarded for our trouble by a couple of good 

 fish. 



" Althougn probably in our whole lives, considering the zest its 

 accompaniments gave it, we never enjoyed a dSjeuner so abso- 

 lutely perfect as that at Chaperon's after our disastrous voyage 

 to Malbaie — yet our breakfasts here were capital ; and as we al- 

 ways started for our sport very early in the morning, and had 

 plenty of salutary exercise in running through the woods, mount- 

 ing and descending the steep banks of the river, exclusive of the 



