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" But while some of these treasures of the sea are now seldom 

 or never captured, others are only ooeasionally taken, and those 

 which chiefly support the several fisheries are not rendered one- 

 twentieth part as profitable as they might be. The varieties 

 Which monopolize the present business are the herring, cod, 

 mackerel, and the salmon. The modes employed in catching all 

 these are of course various, but all behind the present progres- 

 sive age ; and that will be a happy day for this region of the 

 world when the capital an,d smartness of the Yankee race shall 

 be permitted to develop themselves there." 



TEis is a very pleasing picture of the resources of this 

 district, wealth unbounded and annually replenished, but 

 which, from a want of proper caution, is rapidly decreas- 

 ing in value. Let us be hopeful for the future, and see if 

 we in Canada cannot follow the example of the early 

 French fishermen, and build up for ourselves — not palaces, 

 but a national exchequer, and, from the immense re- 

 sources to be derived from our fisheries, ease the burden 

 of the people by a reduction of duty on those imports, 

 which are principally consumed by the poorer classes. 

 Let us supply the States and the West Indies with fish, 

 and bring back retm-n cargoes of neeessaries for our own 

 consumption. 



We will now ascend the Bay, and as we proceed on- 

 ward we will find on our right the Grand Bonaventure 

 River ; still further up, — the Grand and Little Nouvelle, — 

 Grand and Little Cascapediac — ^Metapediac — and, to crown 

 the whole, the grand, the majestic river Restigouche, with 

 its numerous tributaries, besides many other valuable rivers 

 of considerable size. 



Bouohette enumerates sixteen rivers within this district ; 

 therefore in computing the number and value of the fish, 



