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A fine field for the sportsman, unfrequented hunting grounds abounding with deer bears & moose and streams full of salmon. Now & then a more than usually enterprising party from the Quebec garrison sets out on a fishing excursion some little distance up, and is well repaid by the number of fish killed ?. A steamer sometimes with a pleasure party on board, in summer, explores the river some 80-90 up — with a band of music on board & great word — much to the astonishment of the solitary Indian trapping on its banks. I have long projected a hunting trip this away and deo volente intend to carry it into effect the very first opportunity and this summer if the powers that be are propitious. My idea is to word self Dash & skiff into any vessel