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be found to the southward of this line, to justify the words of 

 so accurate and correct a writer as Dr. Richardson. 



At all events, the Mingan River is in Canada Proper, in the 

 lordship of Mingan, and is constantly visited for the purpose of 

 Salmon fishing, by yachting parties from Quebec, scarcely a 

 year occurring but one or more vessels are fitted out for this 

 wild spot, which is nearly opposite to the northern side of 

 the inhospitable, and nearly if not absolutely uninhabited. 

 Island of Anticosti, the sport amply repaying the time and 

 trouble. 



I am personally acquainted with several very accomplished 

 Salmon fishers who are at home on those waters, yet by none 

 of these have I ever heard any mention of this fish, and I am 

 well satisfied that although it must, I presume, have been taken 

 by them frequently, it has entirely escaped their observation, 

 being probably confounded either with the Salmon, or the 

 Salmon Trout, although entirely distinct from either. It is 

 remarkable as being the only Charr that is found in the 

 inhabited portions of the United States or Canada, for although 

 Richardson designates the Common Brook Trout {Salmo Fon- 

 tinalis), as the New York Charr, I confess I am at a loss to 

 perceive any grounds for so specifying it. One of the marked 

 characteristics of the Charr, the greater comparative height of 

 the dorsal fin, which will be readily observed in the cut at the 

 head of this article, is entirely wanting in the Brook Trout, and 

 although the vomerine teeth are disposed in a cluster in that 

 species, after the manner of the Charrs, this alone hardly 

 appears to me a sufficient reason for altering its nomenclature. 



The other varieties of Charr, the Angmalook {Salmo Nitidus), 



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