
when, after carefully studying it, we rowed away, it swam 
in the eddy under the stern until it was dislodged and left 
behind. 
We were not long gone when the fond mother rejoined 
it, when her demonstrations of delight were as unmistak- 
able as her former distress, and it was a pleasant thing as 
time and again we passed the bay to see the two playing 
about in entire contentment. 
The loon seems unable to rise from calm water, or to gain 
elevation in flight unless very slowly, or when aided by a 
high and opposing wind, and hence I infer their long and 
pertinacious resort to diving as their mode of escape. One 
I frightened from a small mountain pond in the “north 
woods” of this State flew around and around, gaining, like 
a spiral stair, a little height each time, and labored in alarm 
a long time before inthe calm air it could rise over the 
lowest cut among the cliffs and escape to some more undis- 
turbed retreat. 
Not uufrequently do they rush along on the surface of 
the water, using their vigorous Wings and scattering spray 
in showers along their course, and beyond doubt their 
movements below are equally rapid and ready. L.W. L. 
—~<o 
THE HUNTER NATURALIST IN NEW 
' BRUNSWICK AND NOVA SCOTIA. 

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A SUMMER in Acadia, the land of countless lakes and 
luxuriant forests, will furnish the sketch book with 
rare scenes, the cabinet with choice minerals, the basket 
and bag with fishes and game, and impart to the invalid 
and wearied, vigor, health and hope. 
Three months amid the rural and forest districts of the 
Provinces has convinced me that they possess greater at- 
tractions for the tourist, sportsman, and health-seeker than 
the majority of regions of resort in North America—the 
Adirondacks, one of my favorite haunts, not excepted. 
In these are old primeval forests, grand and picturesque, 
like the actual forests of my childhood. Here the lumber- 
man has never laid the proud pine low, nor his axe, the de- 
stroyer of our forests, sounded amid these solitudes. There 
are woods in the Provinces where he has been at work, 
but tarry not in these; beyond are preserved lands 
where the trees stand as they ever stood, in majesty of 
growth and beauty of foliage. But penetrate the Maine 
and the Adirondack wildernesses to their desert heart, even 
there will be signs of the lumberman and _ his axe, the 
scourge and curse of ours woods. The lumberman is not 
satisfled with robbing our wildernesses of théir pride and 
beauty—the trees—but must fire valley and mountain, 
leaving the latter bald and bare as the head of a Franciscan 
monk, obstruct rivers with floating logs and ugly dams, 
fill trout streams with tree tops and sawdust, and build his 
saw-mills and human habitations on the most eligible 
camp sites on stream and lake. Ina word, seeming to de- 
light in defacing and marring nature in her every member. 
Come, ye poets, artists, naturalists and hunters; ye lovers 
of primeval forests, to the Acadian woods! 
“This is vhe forest primeval, the murmuring 
Pines and the hemlock, bearded with moss and in garments green, 
Which Longfellow immortalized in his ‘Evangeline.’ ” 
Here, too, issome of the finest scenery to be met with in 
any land. Its sky scenes may not be so soft and subdued 
and sunny as those of Italy, but are not so montonous and 
quite as enjoyable. The tourist in search of wild, bold, 
broken and rugged mountain scenery, towering and naked 
cliff views, should penetrate New Brunswick, enter the 
county of the Restigouehe, look upon the outline sentinels 
of our own Alleghanies, sleepy and silent and hoary with age. 
It would be hard to finda more wild picturesque region 
than this. Or does he delight most in half subdued, quiet 
and rural scenery, then a sail up the St. John river, the 
Rhine of the New World, whose hills are low and soft in 
outline and cultivated to the very summits; or down the 
Bay of Fundy, encircled with green hills and fanned by an 
eternal sea breeze; or out into the waters of the Bay of 
Minas, the basin of waters in the garden of Nova Scotia, 
the rich prairie waters, the cliff-bound waters, and the 
never-to-be-forgotten tidal waters. Such scenes to the stu- 
dent of nature afford immortal pleasures. Here meets the 
eye asremarkable a phenomenon, as grand and awe-produc- 
ing as that of the Falls of Niagara. View this scene at the 
quiet village of Windsor, on the river Avon. The river is 
' without water, the vessels are high on land, laden with 
precious freight, sails fanning the face of the breeze, gail- 
ors looking seaward, who cry ‘‘Ho! water!’ Far in the 
distance appears a little stream of light; nearer and nearer 
itcomes. Ah! it is a rippling rivulet that increases in vol- 
ume and strength, bounding and leaping past in full glee, 
filling corner and crevice. Nowa brook rushes on like a 
running steed, now it surges and rolls over the wide ex- 
panse, now a river, next a lake, and anon a sea, whose 
waves beat against the banks and whose waters bear up 
the mighty ships from their dry beds and on to their des- 
tined ports. Yonder is the steamer coming to bear us over 
the basin to Parrsboro, thirty miles distant, ere the tide 
goes out twelve hours hence emptying these banks of 
sixty feet of water and leaving the scene as we found it. 
These Provinces abound in mineral wealth. Nova 
Scotia is rich in gold fields. These have yieided no mean 
amount of this precious metal already, and yet scientists 
are of opinion that its main beds of gold have not been dis- 
covered, and that the examinations and explorations of the 
ledge rocks that contain gold onthe Atlantic shores, said 
to embrace several thousand square miles, have been but 
partially and very superficially made, leaving its rich gold 
_ veins yet to be found. Its iron and coal mines are numer- 
_ ous and prolific. New beds are constantly being found 
FOREST AND STREAM. 
about the Bay of Minas and other ore regions. Here the 
mineralogists may collect rich and rare specimens. In 
game, the Provinces are unsurpassed. In these may be 
found the hunter’s ard angler’s paradise, The sportsman 
will find the beautiful and attractive forests inhabited by 
moose, caribou, bear, otter and beaver, their extensive 
marshes covered with the choicest of game birds—A meri- 
can snipe, golden plover and curlew. There, too, will be 
met in their haunts geese and duck, also grouse and wood- 
cock, plentiful in certain localities, their rivers and streams 
filled with silvery salmon and spotted trout. 
Ishall venture to embrace in five divisions the hunting 
centres or districts of Acadia. By hunting districts is 
meant regions remarkable for game. These hunting 
grounds will not include those parts which do not. contain 
both moose and caribou. 
First is the Mirimichi district, N. B. This includes all 
the wilderness in and about the great southwest branch of 
the Mirimichi river and its tributaries, together with all 
that territory in and about allthe little Mirimichis. The 
southwest Mirimichi lies north of Fredericton, N. B., the 
seat of government, about fifty-five miles. This river and 
its branches traverse the very heart wilderness of the 
Province. It is reached by taking the European and North 
American Railroad at Boston, to Fredericton Junction, 
which lies close by the dividing line between Maine and 
New Brunswick. Here change cars for Fredericton on 
the St. John river, where supplies must be obtained for 
the wilderness, since there is no place beyond this point 
where provisions can be bought. 
Guides and dug-outs (boats) can be secured at Boiestown, 
‘Mirimichi river, (southwest branch) or by addressing the 
Palmer or Stickney Brothers at this village. 
John Stickney 
has no superior as a guide in angling and hunting in this 
region. One of the Palmer brothers can call moose with 
much Indian art and success. Both of these have accom- 
panied me salmon fishing and moose and caribou hunting. 
There is a stage running every other day from Fredericton 
to Boiestown, which will convey you and your supplies to 
the Mirimichi river. When up river to “Burnt Hill,” the 
ne plus ultra of salmon pools, you can strike off from either 
side a few miles and find moose and caribou, bear and 
beaver and small game, or ascend the river twenty miles 
farther and see many of these animals, together with other 
fur-bearing quadrupeds, without leaving the steamer. Far 
down the river Isaw the summer camp of a beaver and his 
fresh work. Bears are so abundant here this fall as to 
enter the settlements below and destroy both sheep and 
cattle. 
* Another excellent district in New Brunswick, and one 
that embraces a vast wilderness, is the country of the Res- 
tigouche river. 
gion. By some it is thought to be far superior to the Miri- 
This is a tamous hunting and angling re- 
michi country. The forests of both regions contain the 
same kind of game, and their streams afford fine sport in 
salmon and trout fishing. 
contains a complete guide to the routes leading to this dis- 
Number 6 Forrest anp SrrEAM 
trict. 
Again, there is the Indian Lake district, Nova Scotia. 
This is in the vicinity of Halifax, and because of its close 
proximity is much frequented by English officers stationed 
at the city. Yet, notwithstanding this, the sportsman 
from a distance may have excellent success within twenty 
miles of town in bird or moose shooting. Within this dis- 
tance there are, too, many excellent salmon and trout 
centres. The next game district to which I shall refer em- 
braces the wilde ness extending from Yarmouth into the 
Annapolis country, and lying north of what is known as 
thelake region of this Province, and only lacks, as Mr. 
Hallock says, the grand old mountains to make it physically 
as attractive as the Adirondacks, while as for game and 
fishes it is in every way infinitely superior. The region 
north of the lake country is a dense and extensive wilder- 
ness, in which game is but little disturbed. The Micmac 
Indians have always considered this and the lake country 
one of their best angling and hunting grounds. Here the 
beaver still builds his dam and erects his house. These an- 
imals seem to be on the increase since beaver hats have 
gone out of fashion. There are also in this region many 
varieties of fur-bearing animals, such as otter, mink, mar- 
ten, together with bear, lucifee, and.other game animals. 
These are common to all the districts inhabited by moose 
and caribou, and the streams will afford fine sport to the 
fly fisher in killing salmon and trout. 
This district can be reached by steamer from Portland to 
Yarmouth. On angling in these Provinces, see ‘‘Hallock’s 
Fishing Tourist,” the only complete and reliable work of 
the kind which we have met—as true to the streams as the 
needie to the pole. 
The next and last district, and one that has not only su- 
perior attractions for the sportsman, but as well for the 
naturalist, artist and resortist, is the Parrsboro district. 
Parrsboro, beautiful and romantic, is situated on the 
basin of Minas, a quiet summer retreat, In picturesque 
bays, islands, and green hill views, it has never been my 
fortune to meet itsequal. You may bathe in its full tidal 
waters and walk on the beach of the same sea dry-footed 
a little afterwards, when the tide is out. And woe betide 
the mineralogist who dares venture a visit to one of the 
sister islands that lie half a mile in the bay from shore, if 
perchance he tarry long, until warned by the incoming 
waters which are moved by a law as regular, sure. and un- 
changing as the sun, that danger is nigh. He now lifts his 
hammer and chisel and satchel of minerals, and commences 
a hurried retreat, but ere two-thirds of the way is reached 
the water is knee deep. Deeper and deeper it grows, 
thysts were found here. 
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higher and higher it advances, faster and faster he speeds. 
His safety now turns upon his casting away that satchel of 
precious stones. But it contains rare specimens, which 
have cost much labor to knock out of the rocks. He hes- 
itates; only for a moment, however, and it drops at his 
feet, and now he leaps through the water and finally 
reaches the shore wearied and exhausted. This is no fancy 
sketch, but an actual experience. And yet there is not the 
least danger from the incoming and outgoing tide. Jadies 
and children walk these shores, collecting minerals and 
watching the waters day in and day out without a thought 
of danger. 
Parrsboro Minas is destined to be the Newport of Nova 
Scotia. It would be impossible to overrate its romantic 
position, The Ottawa House, kept by an estimable lady 
(Miss Wheeler), is a first-class summer resort, located with 
a view to command the sublimest prospects of Cape Blom- 
iden Cliffs, and other mountain peaks, of which there are 
many, in and about the Basin. Up the mountain sides, at 
the base of which rests the hotel, are many retreats, where 
you may rest in the mountain ascent and watch the gail 
boats near and far on the bay waters, and listen to the 
song of the birds and the hum of the insects, or examine 
the entomological specimens that light on bush or crawl on 
ground. But words fails to describe the pleasure of such 
scenes. These belong to that rare class of scenery that 
-needs to be visited to be appreciated. Besides its scenery 
and sea bathing facilities it abounds in rare and choice 
minerals, and is much visited by mineralogists of all coun- 
tries. Several of the professors and students of our own 
universities come here every year, 
students from Yale College collected in four weeks this 
year nine barrels of minerals. I collected in a day in and 
about the bluffs of Partridge Island, which is not more 
than half a mile from the hotels the following specimens: 
Amethyst in quartz, jasper, red and yellow, stelbite, silici- 
A company of nine 
ous silter, gypsum, agates, copper, iron; and during my 
hunting tour my wife and children collected many others, 
and we brought away a keg of these, which adds much to 
our cabinet. Yearsago two rare and remarkable ame- 
One was presented to a French 
king, who wore it in hig crown, and the other is said to 
sparkle in the crown worn by Queen Victoria There are, 
too, many interesting and picturesque drives along the 
blutts of the bay, and also one to a newly discovered cave 
filled with relics of the past. 
This region will be found equally prolific in animal life. 
Portions of its forests are but moose-yards, browsing pas- 
ture grounds. I have seen, this summer, upwards of 
twenty of these pastures in a radius of thirty miles, and 
the tracks of these animals were as the tracks of the cattle 
upon a thousand hills. On thissame ground, as my Indian 
guide assured me, four Indians, out of season, during the 
deep snows of last spring, ran down on snow shoes and 
killed sixty moose, leaving their carcases to rot in the wil- 
derness, all for the paltry price their hides would bring. 
“This is barbarous,” as John said, ‘in an Indian, but 
there are white men here who practice this mode of hunt- 
ing as well.” 
The caribou travel on the hard-wooded ridges, the mogs- 
covered ridges. These are as abundant in their haunts as 
moose, but since they do not yard ‘ike the moose, but pass 
and repass from yard to yard, feeding as they go, the 
hunter thinks them not so numerous. While moose and 
caribou occupy the same forests in this district, they are 
yet separate. Here, too, other portions of the same forest 
are occupied by bears. While other animals pass through 
these bear districts, yet the latter hold and defend them 
against all intruders. 
I met with one of these bear districts near the Bucktagen 
Plains, thirty miles from Parrsboro, that contained bear 
trails as well travelled and as numerous as any I ever saw 
in moose or deer regions. There are many red and crogg 
foxes here, and other fur-bearing animals, including the 
otter, fishes, martens, &c. These are found aloag nearly 
all the streams. There are also in the forest both ruffed 
grouse and black grouse. The black or spruee grouse (7' 
canadensts) are met only in cedar and spruce Swamps. Near 
Parrsboro both woodcock and duck shooting is good. One 
of the best snipe, plover and curlew shooting centres in the 
world is embraced in this district. I mean the famous 
Lockville and Amherst marshes. These (Zantramar) 
marshes are reached by daily stage trom Parrsboro which 
connects with the Intercolonial Railway, or from St. John 
by the same railway. 
The trip to any of these districts named can be made as 
quickly as to the Adirondacks or Maine woods, and with 
much less expense, and where game is infinitely more 
abundant, 
The best guides in the Adirqndacks, including boats, 
cost $3 per day, while the best guides in Nova Scotia and 
New Brunswick cost from $1 25 to $1 50 per day, gold, 
The fare from Boston by rail or boat to St. John, will not 
exceed $9, while it costs about $10 from New York to the 
Adirondacks, and many of these districts are as well 
adapted to hunting and tishing in canoes as are the Adiron- 
dacks to boats. Should any think me over enthusiastic 
for these Provinces, let them visit them. This is addressed 
to patient, appreciative sportsmen,and not to grumblers and 
easy-chair anglers and shooters, who lounge about civilized 
woods and border streams, and who return to curse the 
man who wrote on their advantages and beauties, 
One of the best guides in all Nova Scotia is John Logan, 
of Half Way river. Heisa most competent, reliable and 
willing guide. Ihave found him perfectly familiar with 
the woods and equally acquainted with every species of 
game therein found A. B. Lamperron, 
