GEOGRAPHICAL DISTRIBUTION OF THE OUANANICHE 115 



John Bignell, Dominion Land Surveyor ; and Mr. P. H. 

 Dumais, Surveyor and Geometrician, reported on the 

 subject in 1889 to the Crown Lands Department of 

 Quebec as follows : " This lake (Manouan) is full of 

 fish ; its ouananiche, salmon, trout, and whiteflsh are 

 superior to those of Lake St. John, thanks to the for- 

 mation of the bed of the lake, which is composed solely 

 of sand, while three-quarters of that of Lake St. John 

 is composed of marl and clay." 



The best if not the only authority upon the occur- 

 rence of the ouananiche in those Labrador waters that 

 are carried to the sea by a northerly or easterly course 

 is Mr. A. P. Low, the intrepid explorer of the Geo- 

 logical Survey of Canada, who led the expedition of 

 1893-94 that traversed the great peninsula from Lake 

 St. John to Ungava Bay, and from the mouth of the 

 Hamilton Eiver at Esquimaux Bay to the headwaters 

 of that river in the interior of Labrador, and thence 

 southward to the St. Lawrence. To this eminent au- 

 thority I am indebted for the following notes : 



OUANANICHE OP THE INTERIOR OF LABRADOR 



BY A. P. LOW, B.AP.SC. 



"This fish is found in many of the streams that flow 

 from the table-land of the interior, and is not confined 

 to any particular watershed, as it lives in the northern, 

 eastern, and southern rivers. 



" The central table-land, like all areas of Canada un- 

 derlain by archsean rock, is covered with an intricate 

 network of lakes connected by river stretches, and 

 the general slope of the country is ^o gentle, and the 



