Forest life in Acadie : Sketches of sport and natural history in the lower provinces of the Canadian dominion . offier no extraordinary^ sport,possess the charms of wild and often noble scenery; lifein the woods, in a summer camp, will agreeably sm--prise those who hold back for fear of hard w^ork, and thediscomforts of roughing it. Any point, excepting theextremes of Labrador, may be reached with ease fromeither Quebec or Halifax; whilst the economy whichmay be practised by a party of two or three, mil be foundto be within the means of most sportsmen. At the ter^mination of the fishing season
Forest life in Acadie : Sketches of sport and natural history in the lower provinces of the Canadian dominion . offier no extraordinary^ sport,possess the charms of wild and often noble scenery; lifein the woods, in a summer camp, will agreeably sm--prise those who hold back for fear of hard w^ork, and thediscomforts of roughing it. Any point, excepting theextremes of Labrador, may be reached with ease fromeither Quebec or Halifax; whilst the economy whichmay be practised by a party of two or three, mil be foundto be within the means of most sportsmen. At the ter^mination of the fishing season a few weeks may be spentin tourising through the Canadas or the States; and inthe month of September the glowing forests of NovaScotia or New Brunswick may be traversed in search ofmoose, cariboo, or bear. Between the Ottawa and thegreat lakes there is excellent duck-shootiugj and the woodsabound in deer (Cervus Virginianus), whilst the vast ex-panses of wilderness in Newfoundland teem with cariboo^ptarmigan, and wild fowl; the former so abundant assometimes to tempt the sportsman (?) to kill more than I. THE GRAND FALLS, NEriSIGUlT. 1 ACADIAN FISH AND FISHING. 255 he can carry away or dispose of, leaving the meat rottingin the woods. To all such, Avaunt 1 say we ; wholesaleand thoughtless slaughter, except on the fiercer species—the natural enemies of man—is always to be depre-cated ; but the true sportsman we confidently invite tothe forests and rivers of British North America, believ-ing that his example in carrying out the fair Englishprinciples of sport, will tend much to the preservationof 2;ame. GLOVERS SALMON. S. Gloverii (Girard.) My first acquaintance with this handsome salmonoidbegan many years since, when I would take basketsfuUin the month of April in the runs connecting the upperlakes of the Shubenacadie river in Nova Scotia. At firstI took them to be young salmon, both from their jump-ing propensities when hooked and the resemblance theybore to the parr on s
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