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rings of growth. Few of the lake bogs have such large trees on them, 

 and few have become so filled with moss. There is every evidence 

 that this lake was one of the earliest to be dammed off. In the first 

 place it is several miles nearer the mouth of the river than the other 

 lakes, and its position between the Aulac and Tantramar would make 

 it liable to damming from both sides. The small amount of fresh 

 water running out of it would make this easily possible. One or two 

 small open lakes of less than an acre in extent alone remain of the 

 original lake which probably covered nearly one thousand acres. 

 There are about seven feet of water in these lakes, and the depth is 

 about as great close to the shore as farther out. The moss projects 

 over the water in such a manner as to make it dangerous to approach 

 the margin. When examined last by the writer there were several 

 large pieces of detached moss floating in the centre. The moss is now 

 intergrown with heaths, bullrushes, coarse grass, cranberry vines, 

 pitcher plants, etc., so that the " hackmatacks ; ' (larches) find a fair 

 amount of soil in the rotting vegetable matter. 



A good deal of money has been spent in Sunken Island with little 

 or no results. The moss is so high that a great deal of salt water will 

 be needed to kill it, and a long time will pass before it will be properly 

 settled. In fact since the aboideaus were blown out and the tide 

 allowed to flow in unhindered on the " Big Marsh," the water has not 

 risen high enough to enter this island at all. 



The digging of a canal into the Jolicure Lakes has been agitated 

 for some time. The owners of the Sunken Island body hope the route 

 selected may be through the island. Should the canal take that course 

 the bog could be made into marsh, and probably pay a dividend to the 

 investors. 



North-east of Cole's Island the Tantramar curves out, then 

 doubles back on Itself, leaving a point of land joined to the mainland 

 bv a narrow neck sixty feet wide. High tides swept over this and 

 rendered the point unfit for cultivation. The water going up the 

 river kept its old bed, but no sooner would it get around to the upper 

 side of the neck than it would rush back over the neck to return agaiu 

 bv the way of the main river. This gives one an idea of the rapidity 

 with which the water rises as it runs up the river. This neck was 

 cut oil' in 1893 by two of Sackville's enterprising farmers, anil in 1894 

 there were twenty feet of mud deposited in the old channel. Several 

 'acres of marsh will be made from the reclaimed point and the old 

 river bed. 



