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in this matter ; for there can be no doubt upon tbe mind of 

 any man who is acquainted with the localities, that if the 

 King's Posts should be abandoned by the Hudson's Bay 

 Company, before some well devised system be adopted for 

 carrying on the work which they have hitherto effected, two 

 melancholy results will be the inevitable consequences, viz- 

 the salmon rivers will be taken possession of by hordes of 

 lawless men, who will in no way contribute to the revenue 

 of the country, but will quickly and recklessly exterminate 

 the fish, and then desert our shores, leaving behind them no 

 trace of their temporary occupation except the destruction 

 they have wrought — and more terrible still — a whole tribe, 

 of Indians (the Montagnards) will be reduced to a state of 

 positive starvation, for upon the Hudson's Bay Company 

 they have hitherto been, and are now dependent for their 

 ammunition, guns, and other means by which they obtain 

 their food and clothing. 



I have considered it my duty to bring every authority 

 I could find to bear on the important subject of the 

 Salmon Fisheries. I should not be doing myself or my 

 subscribers justice, were I not to do so, and having been 

 kindly favoured by a friend, with that admirable govern- 

 mental document on the fisheries of New Brunswick, by 

 S. Purley, Esq., who appears to have left no stone unturned 

 to attain the information sought for, and who has done the 

 inhabitants of New Brunswick such good service. I have 

 conceived it right to make such extracts, from his work 

 as more nearly bears upon the subject of the Salmon 

 Fisheries, inasmucu as the principle river is a dividing 

 line between the two provinces. — TheRESTiGOuCHE — which 

 forpis part of the boundgry between Canada and New 



