. Sport with gun and rod in American woods and waters [microform]. Hunting; Hunting; Fishing; Fishing; Chasse; Chasse; Pêche sportive; Pêche sportive. Sea- Tmut I'^isliiug. 529 Well haiicllecl, a j^ood birch may last for four yt^ars; or she; may be into iiselessness by an inexpert in one season of low water. The red bark is stouter and more durable than the smoother yellow. /rt) 111 .'ii, I. Two years aj^o, fires ravaireil the birch woods about the upper Sa_i;uenay, where much of the material is obtainetl, anil forced the Indians to seek their bark at great distances, increasing the
. Sport with gun and rod in American woods and waters [microform]. Hunting; Hunting; Fishing; Fishing; Chasse; Chasse; Pêche sportive; Pêche sportive. Sea- Tmut I'^isliiug. 529 Well haiicllecl, a j^ood birch may last for four yt^ars; or she; may be into iiselessness by an inexpert in one season of low water. The red bark is stouter and more durable than the smoother yellow. /rt) 111 .'ii, I. Two years aj^o, fires ravaireil the birch woods about the upper Sa_i;uenay, where much of the material is obtainetl, anil forced the Indians to seek their bark at great distances, increasing the price of their work. A new canoe of the size used in thest; streams costs with ecpiipment from (Mghteen to twent\-two dollars. Tlu^se are eighteen feet U)ng. three and a (piarter across, anil fiftinn inches deep, weighing about forty pounds. They are Montaignic canoes, built by Indians of the north shore. The larger ones, used in the St. John's and the gri;ater rivers, will carry nine men or a freight of nearly a ton. The\- arc; mack; by the Micmacs of the south shore, and have higher peaks and flatter bottoms, with less roll than the former. .\fter eight or ten days spent at the home camp, all the pools within range having been several times whipped over, and the run of large trout sensibly slackens. At a point seven miles higher u|) (measured through its crooks), the river rests, after its earlier wanderings for seventy miles through untrodden forests, and ex- pands into a basin, between two and three miles across in either direction, deep set among craggy hills. Through this lake, and to the far regions beyond, all the fish, salmon and trout, pursue their pilgrimage. Just opposite the home camp a well-marked |)ortage i I 1! k' :i",tHfl .(', 1 '•'i fi , iTlJ r H m. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the
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