With fly-rod and camera . hardly any black flies or mos-quitoes to annoy one. Of course, up the river, amongthe barrens and in the mountains, twenty miles or so,there will be flies, and savage ones, too, but in the opencountry below through which the river takes its course,no annoyance from the usual pests is experienced. One can pass two or three weeks very pleasantlyand profitably at Northeast Margaree. The scenery ischarming — in many places picturesque — and it is oftengrand. Forest-topped and green mountains environ thesettlement completely. Lovely vistas of meadows and elm-studded valley
With fly-rod and camera . hardly any black flies or mos-quitoes to annoy one. Of course, up the river, amongthe barrens and in the mountains, twenty miles or so,there will be flies, and savage ones, too, but in the opencountry below through which the river takes its course,no annoyance from the usual pests is experienced. One can pass two or three weeks very pleasantlyand profitably at Northeast Margaree. The scenery ischarming — in many places picturesque — and it is oftengrand. Forest-topped and green mountains environ thesettlement completely. Lovely vistas of meadows and elm-studded valleys stretch away in all directions. Beautifuldrives on eood roads are available, and with such fish-ing as may be had there the time passes delightfully. The strange, almost unique French fishing stationof Chetticamp on the Gulf shore twenty-five miles away,is one of the points to which an excursion should betaken, and the tourist will find it a novelty interestingin the extreme. The village consists of a long street of. u 278 With Fly-Rod and Camera. fishermens cabins, and the industry of cod fishino- andcuring- by the French population is carried on with atruly Yankee vigor. The only landing place on this partof the Gulf shore is in a little cove that pierces the roughand rocky coast. The fishing boats when the wind isfavorable enter the cove and pass up an inclined planeof logs over which they slide until they are safe fromthe waves, which are here often of great size. NearRosss house is a very large cold spring, in which theNova Scotia Fish Commissioners keep the salmon alivethat are caught for breeding purposes until the spawn isready for stripping. Some idea of the value of the Marg^aree as a sal-mon river may be had when I state that in addition tothe vast number of fish that are speared, netted and kill-ed in other ways, in a few pools in the neighborhood ofthis spring alone, there are caught and confined in it fromthree to five hundred large salmon every fall. These
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