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FOREST AND STREAM. 



and evening saw her safely anchored inside 

 Biquette Island. 



At 2:30 a. m., aroused by the starting of 

 the engine and noise of the anchor-chains I 

 peeped from the cabin window. A dubious 

 light; on the far-off sea, a bright and fast in- 

 creasing radiance, a blaze of fiery water from 

 the horizon to the yacht, proclaimed that the 

 sun was up. One hundred miles across, in a 

 north-easterly direction, lay the Godbout. 

 Porpoises rolled sleepily around, and seals 

 here and there popped their round heads 

 above the surface and disappeared as we 

 passed ; and as the steamer approached the 

 shore, innumerable wild ducks rose like an 

 exhalation from the sea, circling us in clouds, 

 and even shading us from the sun. We anch- 

 ored at the mouth of the river, and the part- 

 ing whistle of the yacht reverberated among 

 the hills, scaring the lonely group of Indians 

 gathered on the beach, as we paddled up to 

 the camp a mile and a half beyond. The 

 . Godbout supplies first-rate sport for three rods. 

 Two miles of water cover all the pools in 

 which salmon are killed, and these, divided 

 into three portions, one for each rod, are 

 taken in turn by the fishermen. Each division 

 has its own peculiar charm, and each differs 

 entirely from the others. The natural divis- 

 ions are the Camp Pools, the Centre Pools 

 and the Upper Pool. 



Fishing in the Camp Pools, partly from the 

 shore, partly from a boat, with plenty of room 

 to play the fish, a good beach to land him, 

 and every facility for following him, would, 

 by many devotees of the rod, be considered 

 perfection. Here little danger exists of losing 

 a well-hooked fish, and although, fresh from 

 the sea and vigorous, he may spin off your 

 line to within a few yards of the end, reeling 

 up or giving out as your gaffer sends the 

 boat after him, you may, with undisturbed 

 equanimity, smoke the fresh-lit pipe, sure of 

 your quarry. • 



Not so certain are the pools immediately 

 above, although easy to' fish as compared with 

 those higher up. Thdr waters are divided 

 by a small wooded island, below which, 

 forming for a few hundred yards powerful 

 rapids, they unite in the quiet of the Camp 

 Pools. 



Leaving these, a short struggle with paddle 

 and pole brings your boat to the head of the 

 Belle Rapid, where it is left handy for shov- 

 ing off. A little way above, you may hook a 

 salmon in the Belle, and if you can lead him 

 up stream, he is probably yours, but his 

 course is oftener down. With a heavy strain 

 upon your rod you try to hold him back, and 

 yet are forced forward so fast against your 

 will, that to keep your feet, save your tackle, 

 and scramble panting into the boat is no easy 

 task, and you are in for a rare bit of sport. 

 The gaffer shoves into the rapid, sweeps past 

 boulders and ugly eddies, by magic saving an 

 upset, and, as the sudden slackening of the 

 fine tells that the fish has halted, brings up in 

 the middle with a jerk sadly dangerous to 

 your equilibrium. The wates boils and hisses 

 round you, and as you totter for an instant 

 and steady yourself, another rush for very 

 life is made, the boat yields to the current, 

 and sweeps into the quiet pool below, where, 

 the tumult over, you can settle at your leisure 

 with your fish. So much for the Belle and 

 her neighbors. 



Half a mile above, the river, which along 

 its entire course is picturesque, becomes 

 rougher and wilder. The banks, closely 

 wooded, rise abruptly, on either side, extend- 

 ing into hills of considerable height, and the 

 pools are reached by a well-trodden path 

 singularly wild and beautiful. At the Shea 

 Pool huge boulders in numbers are scattered 

 over the bed of the river, which boils and 

 tumbles through them. To gain the points 

 where the salmon lie, rough ladders are laid 

 from rock to rock, and here all your skill is 

 wanted. Where the deep and rapid water 

 gliding past the opposite cliff brightens over 

 a boulder below the surface, your fly dropped 

 deftly just above will do its errand. A long 

 cast, but a certain one — to hook at least ; but 

 the current is heavy, and a few yards below 

 the rapids are impassable. The chances are 

 in favor of the fish. Look out— he's hooked. 

 Whirr-r ! the reel replies to his salute; whirr-r! 

 he's going down ; whirr-r ! for heaven's sake, 

 hold 1 —whirr-r 1 the strain is off, the line is 

 limp and loose, the fly and half the cast are 

 o-one! Several other pools of varied difficulty 

 and beauty comprise the second division, all 

 requiring for a good bag skilful fishing. 



The fishing has up to this point been from 

 the east bank of the river. We cross at the 

 Indian, which is fished from a boat lowered 

 inch by inch down the deep current, dark 

 from the shadow of the wooded heights be- 

 yond, and our path, straight through the for- 

 est to the Upper Pool, cuts off a picturesque 

 angle of the river in which are the Charteris 

 and Eagle pools. The Upper Pool is the 

 finest and largest in the Godbout. In it the 

 best day's salmon fishing ever recorded was 

 made, when Mr. Allan Gilmour some years 

 ago killed forty-six— a score which has since 

 been surpassed by the guardian of the river. 

 During the best part of the season an ordi- 

 nary daily yield of that pool to an experi- 

 enced fisherman is from ten to twenty salmon. 

 Standing about the middle of a gravelly 

 beach, a short way above and behind to your 

 left is a point of massive boilders, round 

 which the water, after rushing tumultuously 

 through a wild and narrow gorge, extends 

 into a basin of comparative quiet and con- 

 siderable width. Shallow where you stand 



as it ripples over the pebbles, it gradually 

 deepens and darkens as it sweeps round the 

 base of the opposite cliffs. 



With a short line, from the sha'lows by 

 your feet you will hook the first fish, and ere 

 the fly, gliding with the stream or dancing 

 among the ripples in gradually extended 

 curves, has reached the full measure of your 

 strength, you will seek a respite as each suc- 

 cessive fish is landed, to admire his beauty 

 and smoke with mingled pride and pity a 

 pipe of peace. 



Many may be guided, after a few frantic 

 rushes and a wild jump or two, to the eddy 

 above, and readily gaffed ; but now and then 

 a fish comes on whose purpose is to fight. 

 With a shoot across, the silk line threatening 

 to cut your fingers like a knife, your rod 

 bending like a withe, and your reel working 

 like a steam engine, for an instant he staggers 

 you ; he flashes in the air in defiauce," and 

 proclaiming Himself a twenty-pounder, drives 

 the barb well in, and, goaded to fury, goes 

 off with a lash of his tail. Give him the butt 

 now strong. The river runs swifter and 

 swifter, and tossed and broken by gigantic 

 rocks two hundred yards below, which you 

 cannot pass. Down, down he goes, and you 

 feel as you tear along that you must soon give 

 up. But he stops among the rocks. What 

 bliss ! you rest against a boulder and have 

 him still 1 Inch by inch you reel in, as, slowly 

 moving round, he nearsyou. Now your cast- 

 ing-line appears, and now a black tail, crop- 

 ping up above the surface, slowly moves 

 from side to side. The gaffer feels his gaff 

 and creeps behind a rock ; another yard or 

 two— the gaff is over him. Watch ! - strike ! 

 miss! Whirr— the line spins off; he takes 

 the chute— click, another fly is lost ! A black 

 spot for an instant marks him in the torrent 

 far beyond j our reach. 



Fish after fish is added to your score, each 

 attended by its particular incidents ; and each 

 evening, ere returning to the camp, you have 

 had no ordinary strain on both mind and 

 muscle. 



After a good day's catch there is no prettier 

 sight than the product of each rod ranged 

 upon the grass. Each fish having been first 

 weighed and registered, those for immediate 

 use are set aside, and the rest are carefully 

 prepared and put in barrels. 



For about a month the salmon, fresh from 

 the sea, and in fine condition, take the fly 

 pretty freely. After that time they have for 

 the most part run far up the river to their 

 spawning pools. This is a signal for us to 

 leave, and, with a total of 400 fish, of an 

 average of 13 pound, killed from June 15 to 

 July 15, we paddle down to the Cruiser, and 

 steam away from the Godbout for another 

 year." F. 



—In a paper contributed to the Nature, Sir 

 Joseph Dalton Hooker sketches the compari- 

 son which he instituted between the floras of 

 the Rocky Mouutains and those of other parts 

 of this continent, as the result of his observa- 

 tions with Dr. Asa Gray in the survey of 

 Colorado and Utah. The region traversed, 

 both on account of its geographical position 

 and topographical characteristics, contained 

 two temperate and two cold or mountain 

 floras ; first, a prairie flora, derived from the 

 eastward ; second, a so-called desert or saline 

 flora, derived from the west : third, a sub- 

 alpine ; and fourth, an alpine flora. He says 

 that the principal regions with which the com. 

 parison must first deal are four. Two are 

 mainly humid— first, that of the Atlantic coast 

 west to the Mississippi, with the forest-clad 

 shores of the Western tributaries of . that 

 river; second, that of the Pacific slope 

 from the Sierra Nevada to the ocean. Two 

 are inland, namely, that of the northern 

 part of the continent to the Arctic circle, 

 and that of the southern part extending 

 through New Mexico to the Cordillera of 

 Mexico proper. . Dr. Gray has treated large- 

 ly on the contrasts of the two humid di- 

 visions; but Sir Joseph hopes that he has 

 now materials for discussing the relations of 

 the dry intermediate regions to these or to 

 the floras of other countries. He concludes 

 that the vegetation of the middle latitudes of 

 the continent resolves itself into three prin- 

 cipal meridional floras incomparably more di- 

 verse than those of any similar meridians in 

 the Old World, being, in fact, as .far as the 

 trees, shrubs, and many genera of herbaceous 

 plants are concerned, absolutely distinct. 



The Reclamation of Algeria.— The rail- 

 way companies of Algeria had, up to June 1, 

 1870, according to the Courier d' Oran, 

 planted on the way from Algiers to Oran, 

 14,400 fruit trees, 98,900 forest trees, and 

 344,000 trees of different species, on the open 

 plains and slopes, making in round numbers 

 457,000 trees. Since then the number has been 

 sextupled ; the company estimating the num- 

 ber actually planted by it oti the line, as 4.- 

 000,000. If to these particular plantations 

 we add those which have been made in the 

 three, provinces by the proprietors, large and 

 small, such as of the eucalyptus, the acacia. 

 willow, cuzuarinas, poplars, etc., we are com- 

 pi lied to believe that in fifteen or twenty 

 years, Algeria will be '.almost entirely re- 

 deemed.— La Nature, j 



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