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the grants) and 1836 (thence to the South Branch), and by Ber- 
ton in 1838 (South Branch from the mouth of the lakes), though 
curiously enough, this map does not make use of Berton’s survey 
of the North Branch also made in 1838. . The latter survey is, 
however, used on Wilkinson s map of 1859 (though placing its 
head too far to the eastward), which also indicates the presence 
of lakes at the head of both of the South Branches, laid down in 
part from timber-line surveys of 1837 by Jouett. No substantial 
improvement over this map was made until very recently, even 
Loggie's of 1884 and the Geological Survey of later date making 
only slight and unimportant additions. It was the timber line 
surveys of recent years which mapped the lakes at the head of 
all three branches, the North Branch lake and water flowing into 
it* being laid down by Fish in 1894; and these are shown, though 
crudely, on the Crown Land Office map of 1898. The lower 
part of the river from above the South Branch to below the Dun- 
garvon was re-surveyed (a sketch survey with distances esti- 
mated) by Loggie for the Renous and Dungarvon Salmon Club 
(now extinct), in 1896, and his large-scale plan is in the Crown 
Land Office. I have tried to utilize all of these materials in mak- 
ing the small-scale map accompanying this note. Turning from 
geographical to other recorded information. I have found sur- 
prisingly little. The geological map of the river is colored from 
observations made by Dr. Ells, who ascended the river to the 
Upper Falls in August, 1881, but he gives only two references to 
the river in his report (Report for 1880-1882, D, 9, 16). Dr. 
Chalmers appears, from references in his Report of 1894, to have 
ascended it as far as Dungarvon, but he makes no special mention 
of it. There are, of course, references to the river in many gen- 
eral works treating of the province, but none of them are of 
special importance. It does not appear to be mentioned in any 
of our sporting literature, aside from a brief reference to a visit 
to “ the Renous lakes ” by Dashwood in 1863 in his Chiploquor- 
gan (no), and an article by Risteen, “ The Phantom Loon of 
Louis Lake” in Outing for August, 1900. It is not a specially 
* Excepting at the extreme head, which I have added from a sketch given me 
by Mr. Henry Braithwaite. 
