86 THE CANADIAN NATURALIST. [April^. 



the Forks, heavy beds of slates or flags cross the stream with a 

 strike N. E. and S. W., dipping to the northwest at an angle of 

 45^ and more, breaking the course of the river, and producing a fall 

 of about one foot. The water at this point is rapid, but after pass- 

 ing the exposed rocks again becomes deep and tranquil. In this 

 portion of the stream the land is low, with few trees, but is thickly 

 covered with blade alder bushes ; the soil as far as visible, being 

 principally sand and gravel. The course of the river is very tor- 

 tuous, running successively to all points of the compass. To the 

 right of its general course, at a distance of about a mile, a high 

 ridge is apparent for many miles, pursuing a course about N. 30^ 

 E. Gravel beds are very numerous, and occasionally large bould- 

 ers are found in the stream. The pebbles composing the former 

 are principally slaty ; but rounded lumps of milky quartz are also 

 common, with a variety of silicious rocks, among which we found 

 a fine-tinted, transparent cornelian, jasper, and a httle chalcedony. 



In the vicinity of a small stream called the Cedar Brook, which 

 enters the river from the northeast, we passed over strata of fine, 

 dark slate nearly perpendicular, and having a strike about N. E. and 

 S. W. These slates are visible for some distance, and have seams 

 of white quartz, and sometimes of limestones, running through 

 them. Near here I examined the plants upon the bank, and ob- 

 served Trientalis Americana, Clintonia borealis, Oxalis acctosella, 

 SmiloLcina hifolia, Linnaea borealis, Cornus Canadensis, C. sto- 

 lonifera. Viburnum opulus, Sagitta sagittifolia, Streptopus dis- 

 tortus, wild currants and raspberries, Thalictrum (four or five feet 

 high), Mitella nuda, and Smilacina stellata. 



The Little Tobique receives its waters from a chain of roman- 

 tic lakes, completely shut in by high granitic mountains. The first of 

 these is about two miles long and one broad, and lies at the very 

 base of Bald or Sagamook Mountain, one of the highest peaks in 

 New Brunswick. It is but one of a continuous chain, but rising 

 abruptly from i\vQ lake seems to stand aloof from its less elevated 

 companions. It is of a gently swelling outline, and, although dis- 

 tine ly covered with vegetation at its summit, exposes on its sides 

 broad and precipitous 0119*8, laid bare by the action of slides, which 

 have probably suggested its rather inappropriate name. With 

 three others of the party I ascended the mountain, and was well 

 repaid by the extensive view afforded in every direction. The 

 height, as given by Gesner, is 2,240 feet; but as he did not, I be- 



