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great abundance, and may often be seen leaping from 

 ledge to ledge of the falls in their endeavor to ascend 

 the river. They may also be found in a lake two 

 days' journey up the stream. The last and longest of 

 the ten portages already referred to is twenty -two 

 miles up the river, and above it there are three or four 

 miles of comparatively smooth water. Then follow 

 eight miles of frightfully strong current, up which the 

 canoes must be poled to the discharge of the lake. 

 This is a very pretty body of water, surrounded by 

 high mountains, and is three miles long by one wide. 

 Ouananiche are usually found in it at the upper end 

 of its east side. Trout up to two and three pounds in 

 weight are often taken at the foot of the various falls 

 of the Little Peribonca, but they cannot be called 

 plentiful, and in summer they must be sought in spring 

 holes. A short portage may be made from the lake 

 already described to Lake Epipham, and thence the 

 return to Lake St. John may be made by way of the 

 Epipham River, or a more extensive tour can be had 

 by continuing through a number of lakes into the 

 Riviere des Aigles, and thence by way of the river 

 Aleck into the Peribonca. Lake Epipham is three 

 miles long, and its outlet of three-quarters of a mile 

 in length runs south into Little Lake Epipham. Both 

 lakes contain trout, and the river Epipham, leaving 

 the little lake, empties, after a course of eighteen 

 miles, into the Aleck six miles from its junction with 

 the Peribonca. 



But by continuing east from Little Lake Epipham, in- 

 stead of descending the river, four lakes may be crossed, 

 of which the largest, Lake Long, is two miles in length, 



