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lowing streams : the St. Augustine, the Little Mecca- 

 tina, and the Netaginau, all reported by the Indians to 

 be good salmon rivers, though there are falls a few 

 miles from the mouth of the latter which it is prob- 

 able the salmon cannot leap; the Etamamiou, the 

 Coacoachoo, which flows into a bay where salmon 

 are taken in large quantities ; the Olomonasheebo, the 

 Washecootai, the Great and Little Musquarro, and the 

 Kegashka. This last and the Olomonasheebo have cat- 

 aracts a few miles from their mouths, and above them 

 contain, of course, no salmon. On the Washecootai 

 and the Great and Little Musquarro the fishing is re- 

 ported excellent. West of the Natashquan, and situ- 

 ated between it and the Saguenay, and in the order 

 hereinafter mentioned as we go westward, are the fol- 

 lowing rivers : the Goynish, the Wabisipi, the Great 

 and Little Watsheeshoo, the Corneille, Komaine, Min- 

 gan, St. John, Magpie, Thunder, Sheldrake, Manitou, 

 Moisie, Margaret, Trinity, Laval, and the Little Ber- 

 geronnes. 



Some of the large northern tributaries of Lake St. 

 John such, for instance, as the Peribonca, the Mistas- 

 sini, and the Ashuapmouchouan are from three hun- 

 dred to five hundred miles each in length. Marvel- 

 lous stories are told by the Indians of the trout that 

 are to be taken in the headwaters, not only of these 

 famous ouananiche streams, but of the salmon rivers 

 of Labrador already mentioned, of the Ottawa and 

 St. Maurice and their tributaries, as well as in the 

 other rivers and lakes of the interior at these high 

 latitudes, and on the farther side of the height of 

 land. Should the time, therefore, ever come that the 



