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ship 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 dis- 

 tinct 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 

 FontinaliS) as the New-York Charr, I confess I am at a loss to per- 

 ceive any grounds for so specifying it. One of the marked charac- 

 teristics of the Charr, the greater comparative height of the dorsal fin, 

 which will be readily observed in the cut at the head of this paper, 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, and 

 the long-finned Charr, Salmo Alipes^ are found in the small lakes and 

 rivers of Boothia Felix, but as that far northern peninsula is utterly 

 beyond the reach of the most determined angler, it is useless to give 

 them more than this mere passing notice. 



The Masamacush is, on the contrary, within easy reach of all who 

 are willing to travel distances, without incurring either risk or fatigue, 

 in pursuit of their game, and is found, moreover, in the very waters 

 which afford the greatest variety and the highest attractions to the 

 scientific fly-fisher, in their abundance of Salmon, Salmon Trout, and 

 Brook Trout. It is also a bold and daring biter, voraciously seizing 

 a bait of sucking carp, pork, deer's heart, or the belly of one of its 

 own species affixed upon a cod-hook. " We took many at Fort En- 

 terprise, in March, in gill-nets set under the ice," says Dr. Richard- 



