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The Mz'ramz'chz' River and Nashwaak Valley Districts

ROCEEDING south on the Intercolonial

Railway, the important centre of Newcastle ‘ 0n the Miramichi River is reached. Here i the fine river Miramichi empties into Mira- michi Bay, passing first through the island- protected inner bay that makes such a broad approach to Chatham and the wide Miramichi at Newcastle. The prosperous towns of Chatham and Newcastle are there- fore natural centres for outfitting and start- ing on river journeys of such extent that the whole of Central New Brunswick may easily be reached; and not only that, but also Tobique River and the west, the St. John and Madawaska to the far west, the Restigouche and Matapedia Rivers to the north-west, the Upsalquitch and Nepisiguit Rivers to the north, the Nashwaak and St. John Rivers to the south-west, and Grand Lake, Canaan and Kennelwcasis Rivers and the Bay of Fundy to the southv—are all made accessible by the Miramichi River.

This grand system of waterways has no parallel elsewhere. Canoeing, fishing, etc., over such an extensive chain of rivers is a joy that, once tasted, calls back the happy nature lover again and again to the fascination of continued exploration in a country that is full of variety and beauty.

By this time the traveller has fairly entered New Brunsw’i(,‘l(, and he cannot have failed to observe many differences between this province and that he has recently left. Quebec is the Old world, with scarcely anything of the new in it, save its scenery, distinctive of the Western Continent. New Brunswick, in its life, seems to typify admirably the happy position occupied by all Canada, a position midway between that of Old England and the great republic to the south. With a strong sheet anchor of conservatism and reSpect for old and tried institutions fastened firmly in Britain's shore, the far-reaching and unbreakable cable, or indissoluble bond, of attach-

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