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.' OOD FISHING abounds near all of these localities. Sea perch, 51 smelts, cod, flounders and lobsters abOund 1n the deeper channels 5,

of the harbors, the delicious and elegantly shapen mackerel is , i

found in perfection during the whole summer, only a mile or ,;

two from shore, and halibut, cod, haddock, and many other sea— i it

”fish are taken on the neighboring banks. ." 7 5

Large marshes, and a netwOrk of ponds fed by cold springs, ;

» .1111. 1/11/71 1 and surrounded by boggy marsh bordered by reeds, and shut in l, 3,5 by wooded banks, are separated from the sea by a few hUndred yards of _ : heaped up sand strewn with wreckage and the skeletons of withered trees 2 slain by the irruption of the ever-shifting sands. 5 These peculiar regions are among the most weird and yet charming of 11 localities, combining, as they do, much that 15 verdant, fresh and beautiful, i and being in close proximity and strong contrast to most perfect examples - 5

of death and desolation

Then fresh water lagoons, the summer resorts of myriads of herring, tro'ut, smelts, and enormous eels; and the no less favorite feeding places of all kinds of wild-fowl, plover, snipe and woodcock, and many other species, offering to the hunter and naturalist a variety of sport, and choice . specimens of every shore and inland variety, and with the neighboring fields and passes, often furnishing scores of birds to a single day’s bag.

In July, delicious wild strawberries abound, and the barrens are covered with checkerberries, later on red raspberries may be had in abundance, . and still later the whortle, blue and gooseberry, all large size and splendid : flavor, are to be had for the picking, or purchased at ridiculously low rates. 1“

From these sections west, excursions can be made to the Dunk River, A. a place noted for its trout and salmon fishing, and to several good trouting . streams still further West, sUch as 'lhe Brae, Miminegash, and Little Pierre . . 1 Jacques. Going east, into King’s County, the sportsman can visit the ' Forks of the Morel], the most famous series of trout and salmon pools in that section of the province. Fhe Morel] River is one of the most delightful 'spots for a camping ground to be found any- where in Canada. Cold springs of the purest water are to be met with every few hundred. yards along its closely and beautifully wooded banks. Its winding course, for a distance of twelve miles or more, abounds. with exquisite scenery, and its pools are the hiding places of the finest ‘ " sea and speckled trout. It flows into St. Peter’s

Bay, which has several other tributaries good

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