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started near Lepreau Village and swept northward and westward. 

 Earlier than that date a tire started near Musquash and burnt the 

 country to the eastward. 



At the North Branch the river turns to the southward and Hows 

 twenty miles to the salt water. The river continues to fall much, 

 though with no large falls, until Eagle Mountain is reached. This 

 mountain, which by direct aneroid measurement we made 520 feet 

 above the river at the brook just above it, and about 850 feet above 

 sea level, affords a splendid view in all directions, including especially 

 the burnt country. Here, again, one has forced upon him a conception 

 of the awful power of these great forest fires. The granite hills are 

 not only stripped forever of their covering, but are scorched and 

 bleached. Before one's eyes lies, white and grinning, the very naked 

 skeleton of the land. 



Below Eagle Mountain the navigation becomes easier. Just below 

 Squaw Mountain the sharp boundary between burnt and unburnt 

 country is passed, and one comes with joy into the grateful shade of 

 the woods. Here, too, the granite country is left behind, and the 

 character of the river changes. It now runs rapidly, but smoothly, 

 •over a gravel bottom, justifying its Indian name of Wis-e-amk-ay-nis, 

 •or gravelly river, and becomes a charming canoe-stream. Its water 

 seems to become clearer the farther it is from the lakes, and it is richer 

 in water-plants than any other stream I have noticed. Its course is 

 broken by three great falls, and one or two minor ones ; the former 

 are known, respectively, as Ragged, Big and Little Falls. Ragged 

 and Big Falls are each over eighty feet high, could very easily be 

 dammed, and have immense basins above them in which great quanti- 

 ties of water could be stored. This fact, together with the ease with 

 which water could be stored in abundance among the lakes at the 

 head of the river, is likely to make the Lepreau a valuable river in 

 the time to come when economical transmission of power and increasing 

 cost of fuel will direct attention to natural sources of power. Finally, 

 the river falls over a ledge into salt water at Lepreau Village. 



13. — On New Heights in New Brunswick, determined with 

 Aneroid ix 1897. 



Read April 5th, 1898. 



During the summer of 1897 T made, with a good aneroid barometer, 

 a number of measurements for heights above sea-level in New Bruns- 

 wick. These have been corrected for weather changes by comparison 

 •with readings from the barometers of the meteorological stations at 



