NATURAL HISTORY AND PHYSIOGRAPHY OF NEW BRUNSWICK. 



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to the lake in 1898 and 1899, will doubtless be acceptable , and be- 

 cause of the great interest of the place, I shall try to make my account 

 monographic. 



History. The lake makes its first appearance in historical records 

 upon Franquelin's fine map of Acadia, of 1686, (Fig. 5, A). He does 

 not name the lake, though he marks the portage to Nepisiguit 

 (Oniguen is the Maliseet Oonegun — a portage), and he names the 

 Little Tobique, Nipisigooichich, or Little Nepisiguit, probably its 



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Earlier maps of Hidor Lake 

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Fig. 5. Early Maps of Nictor Lake. 



Micmac name. How remarkably this map influenced all others of 

 this region for over a century, I have elsewhere traced.* The lake 

 next appears, though very imperfectly, upon the fine engraved Baillie 

 and Kendall map of 1832 ; but it was first sketched by a surveyor in 

 1835, when Garden made the MS. map shown herewith (Fig. 5, B). 

 In 1837 Deputy Berton made the MS. sketch shown in Fig. 5, C, 

 which is the original of every published map of the lake down to the 

 present day. In August, 1899, I made a survey of the lake, the first 



* Trans. Royal Soc. Canada, new ser., III., ii., 364, where the New Brunswick part of the 

 map may be found. 



