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The only one of these groups which has yet received study of this 

 kind in New Brunswick is, L.b Raised Peat- Bogs, on which there is a 

 memoir, far from adequate, in the latest volume of the Transactions of 

 the Royal Society of Canada. I have done some work upon F and T, 

 which I hope soon to bring to completion. But this is not a task for 

 one student, but for many. 



19. — On a Current Error as to the Location of (Nictor) 

 Bald Mountain, Tobique. 



[Read January 3rd, 1899.] 



In discussions upon the still unsettled question of the location of 

 the highest land in New Brunswick, Bald Mountain near Nictor Lake 

 is often mentioned. Yet curiously enough most visitors to Nictor Lake 

 have identified the wrong mountain as Bald Mountain, and our two 

 best maps of the Province, Loggie's and the Geological Survey, air 

 also in error on this point. Rising abruptly from the shore of Nictor 

 Lake is a splendid mountain, or rather, ridge, densely wooded to and 

 over the top. This mountain was named in 1863 by Governor Gordon, 

 Mount Sagamook, Maliseet for "Mount of Chiefs," ("Wilderness 

 Journeys," 54). Professor Bailey in the same year climbed it and 

 considered it Bald Mountain (Canadian Naturalist, April, 1864), and 

 speaks of the error of the maps in placing it away from the shore of 

 the lake. Chalmers also (Geological Report, 1885, GG, 1 1 ) considered 

 Sagamook and Bald Mountain as identical, and the Geological Map 

 names Sagamook " Bald or Sagamook Mountain." By all of these 

 writers, and others, Sagamook has been considered the highest land in 

 that vicinity, if not in New Brunswick. Yet Sagamook is not the 

 same as Bald Mountain, nor is it the highest land in the vicinity. 

 The real Bald Mountain, whose position is correctly shown on Wilkin- 

 son's map of 1859, is about three miles to the south-west of Sagamook, 

 markedly higher, and has a perfectly bald conical top. Tt is this 

 mountain which can be seen from far down the Nepisiguit, and which 

 from the upper stretches of that river and from the Nepisiguit Lakes 

 shows a bare top crowned by a wart-like projection. The reason for 

 the failure of different explorers to see it seems plain. Sagamook is 

 the mountain naturally climbed by all visitors, but its top is so densely 

 wooded a view cannot be obtained from it, but only from some bare 

 I m I--.-S of rock near the summit on the northern side, and it is only 



