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reached, a stream of about the same size as the Little 

 Peribonca, containing trout up to two and three pounds. 

 The river can only be descended in canoe for some eigh- 

 teen miles, and there are falls to be portaged around 

 almost as fine as those of the Peribonca. The Shipshaw 

 flows into the Saguenay nine miles above Chicoutimi. 

 So natural a route is this from Lake Tschotagama to 

 the Saguenay, by way of the Shipshaw valley, that Mr. 

 P. H. Dumais, who has explored it for the government, 

 declares that by damming the Peribonca a little be- 

 low the confluence of Tschotagama the waters of the 

 river would run into this lake, which extends ten miles 

 to the southeast. The river Blanche, which flows into 

 it, would be considerably raised, and this last having 

 no fall, and but a slight current throughout its en- 

 tire length, the waters of the Peribonca would speed- 

 ily rush through Bear Lake, in the valley of the Ship- 

 shaw, which is wide and deep, and would follow its 

 natural course until they were lost in the waters of 

 the Saguenay. 



By ascending the river Aleck, which flows into the 

 Peribonca twenty-nine miles from Lake St. John, the 

 Little Peribonca may be reached, thirty-seven miles 

 from its mouth, by a number of portages and by util- 

 izing a portion of the river Pipham. In the river 

 Aleck are to be found trout in abundance of about 

 a foot in length; while Mr. K. E. McCormick, of 

 Florida, and his son, Mr. W. McCormick, took them 

 here, in the summer of 1895, up to five pounds in 

 weight, and ouananiche up to sev-en and one - half 

 pounds. Three falls have to be portaged around in 

 this river, one of which is forty feet in height. Both 



