After deducting nine-tenths, as being destroyed by freshets 

 and from other causes, leaves us 140,000 young salmon fry. 

 A further deduction of one in four, or twenty-five per cent., 

 during their salt water ramble, reduces the number to 

 105,000, which would return within a few months as 

 grilse — or virgin fish — weighing from 4 to T lbs., and which, 

 valued at 2s. 6d. each, gives the value of the Salmon fish- 

 eries within this district to be £13,125. 



CHAPTER XIV. 



GASPE AND BONAVENTUEfi. 



Richer than gold — more valuable than the mines of 

 Australia and California combined — -a never-failing source ; 

 a nation's wealth, contained within the bosom of the wa-. 

 ters that lave your shores — God's special gift to man, — the 

 treasures of the deep, requiring no labor to cultivate, no 

 purchase of seed, no manure, sufifering no blight from rot 

 or fly. — Wealth unbounded coming to your shores, de- 

 positing its precious ofispring in countless millions in the 

 sands of your rivers, saying, — 'Let us alone for a few short 

 weeks, and we will return and provide yourselves and 

 your little ones with an abundance of wholesome and 

 nutritious food, " for all things are created for your use." 

 But no, it shall not be ! Man, the destroyer, man — blind 

 to his own interests, has determined to exterminate the 

 whole of the salmon tribe, and, by net, by spear, by dam, 

 before spawning, while spawning, and after spawning, 

 — has hunted these noble creatures, until at last but a 

 remnant of the species remain. 



