28 THE SALMON FISHEE. 



depth of the river have hitherto prevented such 

 practical observations as are necessary to establish 

 essential physical facts. Therefore, it is reasonable 

 to assume that, inasmuch as it is the habit of all sea 

 salmon to revisit their native rivers, and that it is 

 quite possible for experts to identify the fish belong- 

 ing to each respective river, the winninish, so called, 

 are but members of one of these several clans, and 

 that they too visit the sea periodically, running up 

 in June and July ; that they spawn in the autumn in 

 the tributaries of Lake St. John in nearly all of 

 which they occur, and pass their winters in the lake 

 itself, precisely after the custom of other sea salmon 

 similarly situated. They are not seen until they 

 reach the riffs of the Chute or Grande Discharge 

 ^because that is the first shoal water they strike after 

 ooming out of the tide. In places the Saguenay is 

 1,000 feet deep, and up to Chicoutimi itself an ex- 

 treme average depth is maintained. Other clans of 

 salmon which enter the river deploy into the Margue- 

 rite, the Mars, the Chicoutimi, and the Little Sague- 

 nay, but the winninish, of a somewhat different pat- 

 tern, and marked with the xx instead of the round 



