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Dr. Paley was ardently attached to this amusement; so much so that when / the Bishop of Durham inquired of him when one of his most important / works would be finished, he said, with great simplicity and good humour, / 'My Lord, I shall work steadily at it when the fly-fishing season is / over. ' -- SIR HUMPHRY DAVY: Salmonia.
The boundary line between the Province of Quebec and New Brunswick, for / a considerable part of its course, resembles the name of the poet / Keats; it is "writ in water. " But like his fame, it is water that never / fails, -- the limpid current of the river Ristigouche.