”The lofty woods, the forests wide and long, 
     
     Adorned with leaves and branches fresh and greene 
     
     ln whose cool bours the birds with chaunting song 
     
     Do welcome with their Quire the Summer’s Queene; 
     
    
   
   
    
     The meadows faire, where Flora’s gifts among 
     
     Are intermixt the verdant grass between, 
     
    

    
     The silver skaled fish that softly swimme 
     
     \Vithin the brookes and cristal wat’ry brimme.” 
     
    
   
   
    
     The Matapedia, or ‘Musical,’ River received its name from 
     
     the sound made by the wind in the branches of the trees as it courses 
     
     over and through the numerous ravines. The river rises in Lake 
     
     Matapedia, and is over sixty miles long. Its principal tributaries are 
     
     the Causapscal and the Kassimiguagan. It runs a rapid course 
     
     between two extensive mountain ranges, and terminates in the 
     
     Restigouche at a point some twenty miles south-west of Matapedia 
     
     village. 
     
    

    
     Along the Tobique River are mountains and mountain ranges 
     
     of great beauty. Bald Head, on the Riley Brook, near the Northern 
     
     Forks, is nearly 2,300 feet above sea-level. The Blue Mountains 
     
     of the Tobique Valley are very picturesque—some rise as high as 
     
     1,200 feet above the river level. The loftiest heights are attained 
     
     on the south branch of the Nepisiguit, between Nictor and Nepisiguit 
     
     Lakes and the eastern branch of the Tobique. Here a height is attained 
     
     of 2,600 feet above the sea-level. There are several odd-looking 
     
     mountains on the portage from Nepisiguit River to Upsalquitch Lake, 
     
     and a good View of the surrounding country is obtained by Climbing 
     
     one of these heights. 
     
    

    
     The Tobique is considered by many to be the most picturesque 
     
     stream in all New Brunswick. The fishing is fine and the scenery 
     
     beautiful. Nictor Lake is well worth the journey necessary to reach 
     
     it, and the whole trip up and down the river is a unique woodland 
     
     and water experience. Near the high land separating the Tobique 
     
     waters from those of the Miramichi and Nepisiguit, the highest lakes 
     
     of New Brunswick are found, many of them being over 1,200 feet 
     
     above the level of the sea. The whole province abounds in lakes. 
     
     Those off the regular travel routes are seldom visited, although they 
     
     are quite attractive. 
     
    

    
     The Restigouche has been called the ‘noblest salmon river of 
     
     the world.’ It is navigable for 130 miles or more above Campbellton. 
     
    
   
   
    
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