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inclined to the belief that his information was er- 

 roneous. It is probable, however, that they have 

 been transplanted there from some of the Maine 

 waters. 



Mr. T. Simard, a surveyor and geometrician of the 

 Crown Lands Department of Quebec, a very safe and 

 careful observer, reports that in 1889 he found the 

 ouananiche, as well as trout, in great quantities in the 

 lakes of the Goynish, and especially in Lake Victor. 

 The Goynish flows into the St. Lawrence north of the 

 island of Anticosti, and there is no doubt as to the ex- 

 actitude of Mr. Simard's classification of the fish, for 

 Mr. Gosselin, who made a separate survey of the lower 

 part of the river from that of Mr. Simard, agrees with 

 the latter, that the existence of the salmon from the 

 sea could only be verified for a distance of four 

 miles from the mouth of the stream. Quite a succes- 

 sion of falls intervenes between the salmon-pool four 

 miles from the mouth of the river and the lakes in 

 which Mr. Simard found the ouananiche. Mr. Si- 

 mard's report of the existence of ouananiche in the 

 Goynish, or, as the Indians call it, the Aguamuo, is 

 confirmed by the statement of Mr. D. C. Morency, In- 

 spector of Surveys for the Province of Quebec, from 

 whom I learn, through Mr. C. E. Gauvin, C.E., of the 

 Crown Lands Department, the Government Superin- 

 tendent of Surveys, that he has found a species of 

 salmon that certainly does not come from the St. 

 Lawrence, not only in the Goynish, but also in the 

 Wat-shu-shoo and Piastre-bale rivers. 



It is probable that the ouananiche occurs in many 

 of the Labrador rivers flowing into the lower St. Law- 



