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having a northerly, easterly or southerly direction, or any at all approaching either of 

 such directions. In the course of a chapter contributed by him to " The Book of the 

 Ouananiche," Mr. Low says : "I found the ouananiche in the Roksoak River for a 

 distance of over 200 miles below Lake Caniapscow. Between the place where last 

 seen and the sea are four chutes, one of which at least could not be passed by salmon 

 from below, as it has a sheer fall of sixty feet. My guide of the summer of 1894 

 informed me that ouananiche were found in the lakes and river stretches of the upper 

 part of the George River, which also empties into Ungava Bay. On the eastern 

 watershed we frequently caught land-locked salmon on both branches of the Hamilton 

 River above the Grand Falls, where the sheer fall is 300 feet. 



" Ouananiche were also taken in the great Lake Michikamow. I do not know what 

 the theories are regarding the occurrence of these fish in inland waters, but of one 

 thing I am certain and that is they have never ascended from the sea to their present 

 haunt since the close of the glacial period, and I hardly think the conditions were 

 favorable then. My idea is that the salmon was originally a fresh water fish and 

 acquired the sea going habit." 



I have much that might be of interest to you and your friends on this subject, but 

 from the mass of manuscript which I am now engaged in revising it is difficult to 

 decide as to what selections might prove acceptable. 



