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abrupt ending to the straight piece of river we had just traversed. 

 The top was a perfect dome in shape, bare on the summit, reflecting 

 from its bronzed surface the afternoon sun in a thousand matchless 

 colors. 



As we approached the Nipisiguit Lakes the water became less 

 rapid, but more shoal, with low grassy stretches along the river, in 

 which were seen the tracks of moose and red deer. Viburnum Opulus 

 and Viburnum pmiciflorum were abundant on the low banks, with 

 the royal fern in large clumps. 



On Friday, August 19th, at 1.45 we reached a haven in the first 

 Nipisiguit Lake, seventy-seven miles from Bathurst Harbor, on the 

 twelfth day of our journey, and pitched camp Number Ten on a piece 

 of low ground at the source of the river. Since leaving our guides at 

 the Narrows we had made an average of six and one-half miles each 

 day. 



Next morning we started bright and early to explore the Nipisiguit 

 lakes, four in number, connected by short thoroughfares. Nature 

 smiled on us, for never was there a clearer or brighter morning. We 

 enjoyed the rare luxury of sitting down and paddling our canoe. 

 That was a red-letter day in our calendar. A moose was sighted, 

 three plants new to the province were found, and a stream was 

 discovered not laid down on the maps. Of course the moose was not 

 captured, as moose hunting was out of season. The three plants 

 found were Ranunculus circinatus, myriophyllum alterniflorum, and 

 Carex ittriculata, var. minor. The three Nipisiguit Lakes lying to 

 the east are only ponds of little depth and with soft muddy bottom, 

 each not more than from a half mile to a mile in length. Big 

 Nipisiquit Lake is a fine sheet of water, over two miles long, very 

 irregular in shape, especially on its northern side, where there are 

 several islands, with a long ridge (moraine) extending into the lake 

 and covered with a fine growth of red pine (Pin us resinosa), and 

 flanked on each side by narrow bays extending far into the land. In 

 the western bay we found the camping ground on which for genera- 

 tions past aborigines and white men, mighty hunters and guides, had 

 encamped. Here we pitched our tent, and that night and next day 

 (Sunday) we called up in imagination and made them pass in array 

 before us that motley host of hunters and warriors that had ascended 

 the Tobique, crossed the portage, and thence down tin 1 Nipisiguit. 

 The land around these lakes toward the east is for some distance 



