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" Theory says," he tells us, " that these are salmon 

 which have been unable to get back to the sea, and 

 have acclimatized themselves to their altered con- 

 ditions." But the Most Noble Marquis does not tell 

 us how theory had blundered in this matter, and he 

 probably never stopped to inquire whether it had 

 or not. Both Mr. W. H. H. Murray and Mr. J. M. 

 Le Moine the former in his book on the Lake St. 

 John region, and the latter in his Historical and 

 Sporting Notes on Quebec employ the form " wana- 

 nish." So does Mr. Arthur Buies in his work on the 

 Saguenay. The English pronunciation of this orthog- 

 raphy resembles somewhat that of the Indian name of 

 the fish, but not so nearly as does the spelling already 

 given from Messrs. Hallock's and Creigh ton's articles 

 in American Game Fishes. A still closer approach to 

 the proper sound is found in the pronunciation of 

 " wannanishe," which is the orthography upon the 

 permits to fish in his private waters in the Grande 

 Decharge, issued by Mr. W. A. Griffiths, one of the 

 first regular English-speaking frequenters of these 

 waters. " Wenanishe " is found in a report of a gov- 

 ernment exploratory survey of the Saguenay, prepared 

 by Mr. Nixon, of the 66th Eegiment, in 1829 ; and 

 Bouchette, in his Topographical Dictionary of Canada, 

 calls it "awenanish," declaring that "the awenanish 

 is said to be the most delicious fresh -water fish in the 

 world." Rogers, in his Stadacona Depicta, follows 

 the spelling of Bouchette. S. Webber, in Forest and 

 Stream of March 17, 1894, employs " wannanish." In 

 the Canadian Sportsman of July 18, 1890, appears 

 the form " owaninach "; in the same paper of July 11, 



