. Sport with gun and rod in American woods and waters [microform]. Hunting; Hunting; Fishing; Fishing; Chasse; Chasse; Pêche sportive; Pêche sportive. Sea - Trout Fishing. 517 opening everywhere amony^ their recesses great breadths of a clayey soil, dotted with lakes, and channeled by rapid rivers. .Some of these are fed 1)\- large sheets of water, and follov.' a course of over a liiin-. BANK AND RAl'IDS. dred miles, while others run for less than a thinl that distance. Long, sandy capias jut into the river, and rocky islets fringe it, but for many unbroken leagues of its tlow it laps
. Sport with gun and rod in American woods and waters [microform]. Hunting; Hunting; Fishing; Fishing; Chasse; Chasse; Pêche sportive; Pêche sportive. Sea - Trout Fishing. 517 opening everywhere amony^ their recesses great breadths of a clayey soil, dotted with lakes, and channeled by rapid rivers. .Some of these are fed 1)\- large sheets of water, and follov.' a course of over a liiin-. BANK AND RAl'IDS. dred miles, while others run for less than a thinl that distance. Long, sandy capias jut into the river, and rocky islets fringe it, but for many unbroken leagues of its tlow it laps the feet of the savage gray crags or chafes around granite blocks banded witii red anil purple. A fisherman's house under a clift", a cluster of huts or a light-house where a stream pours in, and a single great saw-mill and lumber depot are the only iniiabited spots along huntlretls of miles in its course. The voyager making a jiort from curiosity or stress of weather gains a hearty wekcinie, giving in exchange his wi-ek-old news, fresh and strange to his hosts. The immense expanse of the river, notwithstantling the steady commerc(' traversing it, is lonely as the seaâand often tlays pass without meeting a sail. With a fresh south-west ')reeze such as often pri'xails in August, the run has been made from Tadousac to the destination within twelve hours. Ofteiier, sailing with the morning ebb at nine, the afternoon of the next day has seen us at camp. ()ne mcIanchoK diary records four nights spent aboanl with alternations of thick fog and baffling nortii-easter; our vessel, after a tossing struggle of endless llf 'â â â \ -id .,1 .: '|t. 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 original Mayer, Alfred M. (Alfred Marshall), 1836-1897. New York : Century
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