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South of it stands Mount Teneriffe, from which a fair view may be 

 obtained to the westward (Figs. 14, 15), and a particularly grand one 

 to the eastward (Fig. 16). From here two mountains falling outside 

 the limits of the map show up with particular distinctness, the round 

 dome of Big Bald on the south branch of Nepisiguit, and to the left 

 of it a pointed mountain with three bare spots near its summit. The 

 latter is named DesBarres for the man, afterwards governor of Cape 

 Breton, who first thoroughly surveyed our coasts, and who mapped, 

 in 1780, the interior of New Brunswick far better than any other 

 cartographer until well into this century. This is, I think, the moun- 

 tain shown on the geological map at the forks of the south branch of 

 Nepisiguit (just west of the large N). 



We begin now to descend the river. As in other rivers of the 

 province the lumbermen have a nomenclature of their own for the 



Petersu 



V/etY to the Eastward -from the, summit of Teneriffe 



Fig. 16. 



rapids, rocks, points, etc., along the river, and these names (for much 

 help in compiling which I am indebted to Mr. P. J. Burns, M.P.P., of 

 Bathurst,) are given on the map. As to the mountains, the first we 

 meet is the symmetrical hill around which the river flows, which may 

 well be named Mount Cooney, in honor of the author of the "History 

 of Northern New Brunswick and Gaspe," (1832), in which is found 

 thft first, and, on the whole, an accurate description of the river. 

 Northeast of this is a prominent symmetrical mountain, which is 

 named Mount Peters, for the surveyor whose accurate map of the 

 river, made in 1832, is the basis for all subsequent maps. From the 

 forks of the Little South Branch three fine mountains may be seen at 

 once, one of which was named Felspar Mount by Professor Bailey in 

 1863, and on the slope of which he describes a remarkable chasm. 

 That to the east of it is named Mount Walker in honor of Commodore 

 Walker, who was the first English settler at the mouth of the river, 



