On the Miramichi River

bougouac Bay, the Kouchibougouacis River, and also for the pleasant resort of Richibucto.

Newcastle is another centre, equipping—point and starting- place for river trips, fishing, hunting, etc. It has a fine situation on hrliramichi Bay, and considerable shipping may be seen at the wharves and mills on the water front. On this river, as on the rivers of New Brunswick generally, the extent of the lumbering operations may be judged from the timber rafts and immense quantities of logs floating down stream on their way to the timber—booms and saw—mills.

There is a pleasant trip up the Miramichi by steamer as far as Red Bank, and down the bay to Chatham, and seaward there are other interesting steamer routes. Newcastle makes a very pleasant summer stopping-place, as it is quite convenient to many places of interest in the neighborhood.

From Derby Junction on one side of the river and from Chatham junction on the other, two lntereolonial lines run by the Miramichi to Blackville, where they join. From this point the line

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