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low and flat, showing that at one time it was probably one large 

 sheet of water. South and west the land abruptly rises into several 

 lofty peaks, the highest of which is Teneriffe. 



On Monday, August 22nd, we "carried" across the portage, nearly 

 three miles, to the Tobique Lakes, and on Tuesday climbed Bald 

 (Sagamook) Mountain, which rises on the south side of Nictor Lake. 

 I ascended this mountain in the year 1884 with Mr. Chalmers of the 

 Geological Survey, having the same season made the ascent of the 

 Tobique and the portage across to the Nipisiguit Lakes. 



On the 7 th October of that year I read a paper before this Society 

 giving some of the results of observations made on the Tobique, with 

 some adjacent tributaries of the St. John, so that any extended men- 

 tion is not now necessary. 



The scenery of this portion of the province is strikingly wild and 

 picturesque. The two lakes which give rise to the Little Tobique 

 river have a united length of over four miles, and are joined by a rapid 

 and crooked thoroughfare difficult to navigate. Both lakes are very 

 irregular in outline, with rounded joints and deep coves, with virgin 

 forests on all sides, the abode of moose, deer and caribou. Shallow 

 ponds at the east extremity are fed by two streams. The temperature 

 of the water here was found to be 41°F., the lowest met with on our 

 trip, the next coldest being that of the stream flowing into the south 

 side of Big Nipisiguit Lake (49°F.). Two plants new to the province 

 were found here, Potamogeton heterophyllus and Pyrohi secunda var. 

 jmmila. 



"We reached Andover on our trip down the Tobique the 30th 

 August, after a pleasant and safe run of nearly 100 miles, through 

 rapids and quiet stretches of river, rendered all the more enjoyable 

 from our toilsome ascent of the Nipisiguit. 



The list of plants, recorded on another page, contains eight species 

 and varieties not hitherto recorded in the province. I am indebted 

 to Mr. Walter Leane, and others, of Cambridge, for their kind assist- 

 ance in determining difficult species, and to Prof. L. H. Bailey, of 

 Cornell University, for determinations of the carices. 



Our northern rivers are better known to outsiders than they are to 

 our own people. In the course of a summer's exploration among them 

 you would meet with a dozen foreigners to one native of the province 

 seeking sport, recreation and rest in those wildernesses where the only 



