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a few liiiiulred yards at the mouth the banks are open and grassy and then heavily 
wooded. The bottom is of sand and gravel, the water spreading over it, with deep 
holes in places and very little current. It flows between two mountains, the northern 
being wooded to the top, the southern about 2,000 feet high and wooded to a height of 
about 500 feet; above this it was bare, with snow patches. The stream was examined 
for about three fourths of a mile in a straight line, and no lake was discovered from a 
hill from which a view could be obtained. There 
were no barricades, except a few natural obstruc- 
tions formed by fallen trees against which drift 
had found lodgment. The water is clear. About 
the mouth are excellent seining beaches. From 
the absence of fishing shacks and gear and barri- 
cades in the stream, and the clear water, it was 
concluded this was purely a humpback stieani, 
and this supposition was afterwards confirmed by 
a Kasaan chief, Skowl, and cannerymen. 
At the head of this southern arm of Moira 
Sound are two small brooks emptying into sepa- 
rate bights. The one to the eastward is a monn- 
tain stream flowing over a rocky bottom, and has 
its source in the vicinity of the bare mountain 
previously mentioned. This bight has, at its 
head, a hue gravel beach about half a mile long, 
bordered by a grassy bank 100 yards wide, Avith 
the heavy timber beyond. Moderately high hills 
surround the inlet. 
The western stream flows into a similar bight, 
where there is a long gravel beach at low water. 
The shore is grassy, with salt-water pools through 
it. The bottom of the stream is rocky, and it has 
its source in the back hills. Both streams had 
very little flowing water, but as they drain a hill 
country, it is probable that they are greatly 
swollen during rainy weather. They are both 
humpback streams. 
At the western extremity of Moira Sound are 
two inlets, the southern one having at its head a 
small brook running over a slaty bottom. The 
head of the arm and a large part of the northern 
beaches are gravelly. This is not a redfish 
stream, but probably contains humpbacks and a 
few cohoes. 
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Vicinity of Old .Johnson Stream. 
These are all the streams that enter Moira Sound, and the only t)nes that contain 
redfish are Kegaii and Old Johnson. The cohoes and humpbacks credited to these 
two streams probably come, in part, from the other streams. It is the custom to estab- 
lish fishing-camps on redfish streams and to fish all others in the vicinity for the 
different species. 
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