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A sand bar almost separates Pocumpus from the western irreo-u- 

 lar expansion of Grand Lake, (See the County Map for the true 

 delineation.) And the west shore of this part of Grand Lake is 

 low and gravelly, contrary to the general rule. We turn around 

 CofBn Point to enter the largest portion of Grand Lake, and we 

 find upon the rocks here the remains of the coflSu which was the 

 reason for giving the name to the point. It was brought here 

 many years ago for the body of a man who was drowned while 

 warping a raft of logs, and left because it was too small. The 

 death of this man was considered a judgment by his associates for 

 his profanity, and the remains of the coffin have made his memory 

 vivid to a succeeding generation. 



Grand Lake, called Witteguerguagum, (a forehead,) by the In- 

 dians, is the largest of the Western Schoodic Lakes, being ten miles 

 long and four wide, but not uniformly of these dimensions. Sev- 

 eral deep coves make the shape very irregular. Numerous islands 

 are found in the lake, upon one of which wo found a ledge of 

 granite — Stone's Island. No other portion of any shore was found 

 interspersed with ledges, though everywhere rocky. Quite high 

 mountains appear at the end of Whitney or Deep Cove. 



We made a short excursion up Ox Brook to Ox Brook Lake, 

 and found boulders of a fine-grained granite and Devonian fossilifer- 

 ous sandstone. No ledges were apparent. Ox Brook passes 

 through an immense swamp filled with sphagnous plants and their 

 concomitants. Loons and ducks abound in these lakes. Flocks 

 of them were often seen ; and the notes of a loon were always the 

 first sound heard in every lake visited. Immense numbers of white 

 fish and togue are caught at the Pocumpus thoroughfare, while 

 the Grand Lake stream is known to amateur piscators as the finest 

 locality in our country to catch the Salmon Trout, (or Dwafed 

 Salmon, according to eminent authorities,) in June and September. 

 We saw white sea-gulls on these lakes during the prevalence of 

 storms on the coast. 



There are two falls on Grand Lake stream, called respectively 

 Bio- and Little. At the Dam the rock is an argillo-mica schist dip- 

 ping 80° S. 60° E. At Big Falls the rock is less argillaceous, with 

 layers of hard sandstone dipping 80° S. 20° E. Drift strife and 

 grooves cross the stream and valley transversely here, with a 

 course of S. 30° E. It is common also to see small and elegant 

 curvatures in the strata, showing that these rocks have been sub- 



