PRINCE EDWARD ISLAND

Fishermen—Souris

Brackley Beach is reached by a carriage drive of fifteen miles from Charlottetown, and is well situated for surf bathing, salt water fishing and trout fishing. The hotel is well filled throughout the season with boarders from the United States. Good trout fishing is had in Black, Whitely and Glasgow rivers, the trout being a good size. As for salt water fishing, one amateur has caught thirty cod in a day. Wild geese and duck are very abundant, and geese are frequently caught alive when they get mixed up with the domestic geese around the shores.

Rustico Beach is reached either by a regular coach from Charlottetown, or by taking a train to Hunter River, where passengers for the hotel are met by a team. There is good surf bathing at Rustico, and the hotel is pleasantly situated near the shore. The harbor is one of the best on the north of the island. The trout fishing at Mill Vale, seven miles away, is specially good, and there is also good fishing at Wheatley River Bridge, Oyster Bed Bridge and New Glasgow Bridge, all about four miles from the hotel.

Tracadie Beach is reached either by driving from Charlottetown, about fourteen miles, or taking the train to Bedford, where a carriage meets pas- sengers for the hotel, four miles distant. There is the fine sand beach, and one may have either surf bathing or bathing in calm water further inshore. There are ample facilities for bathing and fishing, as well as for shooting geese, duck. plover, etc., in the proper season. Trout are found at Winter