BULLETIN OF THE NATURAL HISTORY SOCIETY. 



ARTICLE II. 



THE RESTIGOUCHE — WITH NOTES ESPECIALLY 

 ON ITS FLORA. 



Bt G. U. Hay, M.A., F.R.S.C. 



(Read December 1st, 1806.) 



Last t^ummer, in company with Dr. W. F. Ganong, I 

 made a trip down the Restigonche in a canoe. On the 

 morning of the 25th July, we started from St. Leonard's 

 Station, about thirteen miles above Grand Falls on the 

 St. John, and made the portage through to the headwaters 

 of the Restigouche, twenty-tive miles, arriving there about 

 four o'clock that afternoon. Twelve days after we reached 

 Campbellton after a most delightful trip, in almost un- 

 interrupted fine weather, and upon a river that has no 

 superior in romantic and picturesque scenery, even in 

 this province of beautiful rivers. 



Twelve years ago when I stood on Bald Mountain at 

 the head of the Tobique and looked over the expanse of 

 virgin forest, amid which the Restigouche threads its 

 way through a wild and deep valley seaward, I had a 

 desire to know more of a river that is alike the s^Jortsman's 

 paradise, the delight of artists, and almost a terra incog- 

 nita to naturalists. "With an appetite sharpened by 

 twelve years of waiting, I became a willing partner in 

 last summer's excursion. 



For the first twelve miles of our portage through 

 from the St. John to the head waters of the Restigouche 

 we had a good road. Our portageurs — three men in all 

 — drove ahead on a stout wagon drawn by two horses, 



