Matapedia, Looking over the Restigouche River

a landscape; and which provide, when communicating, such pleasant: and convenient means for going from one part of the country to the other.

The system of nearly-connecting rivers just traced extends through New Brunswick in a wonderful manner; for over the Upsal— (luitch, Nepisiguit, Miramichi and other rivers, and by means of the Madavaska and 'I‘obique, and over the widely ‘amil'ying waters ol the noble St. john, 21 grand highway of water travel is provided. In addition, there is an almost countless number of tributary streams that intersect the country in every direction, and which serve to bring remote inner districts into communication with the seaboard. As" has been seen, some of the rivers are very raI_)i(l4—(lashing headlong through rocky gorges and over stony beds. Others are wide and tranquil, and some ripple a quiet way over sandy beds.

Nor must the myriad streams of smaller proportions be for- gotterv~the cascade, the brook, the clear and sparkling waters where fish abound. Surely the whole of this beautiful country is that of which the poet of olden days wrote:

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