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where in 1768-1776 he had a large trading establishment described 

 by Cooney. The rounded mountain just north of the ri% r er here is 

 named Mount Wightman, for the surveyor of Fredericton who, in 

 1839, carried a line of barometric measurements through this region 

 for the British government, as described in a Boundary Blue Book for 

 1M0. Farther down on the south bank is a distinct, though not a 

 high hill, which should be named Mount Goold (on the map, by mistake, 

 Gould), for Arthur Goold, who at one time owned the site of Bathurst 

 and attempted to make a settlement there. Lower still, on the north 

 bank, towers, up a splendid symmetrical rounded mountain, prominent 

 in the landscape from both up and down river (see Figures 16, 18), 

 showing from the west a marked red color ; this is named Mount 

 LaTour for the Sieur de LaTour, so well known in our provincial 

 history. Just west of it is another of similar character, but not so 

 large, and more deeply stained with red, and this is named for 

 Charnisay, his rival. Directly south of LaTour, across the river, is a 

 splendid wooded ridge, as high as or higher than LaTour itself, and as 

 prominent, but of softer and more pleasing character, which is named 

 Mount Marie, for our Provincial heroine, the wife of LaTour. 



From Mount LaTour to Portage Brook the hills are high,* but 

 none stand out distinctly until the brook is reached. Portage Brook 

 occupies a deep and broad valley, with splendid hill ranges along both 

 sides, and these are named the Missionaries' Range and the Acadians 

 Range to commemorate two peoples prominent in the history of the 

 North Shore. One of the hills in the Missionaries Range, the promin- 

 ent one as seen from below the brook, in the angle between brook and 

 river, is named for LeClercq, who, in 1691, published a most valuable 

 book containing much information about the lower part of the river. 

 It will be well in the future to apply the names of other missionaries 

 to other summits of this range, and likewise to apply the names of 

 prominent Acadians to the summits in the Acadian range. 



Just below the South Branch, on the south side, are two promin- 

 ent rounded hills (Figure 17) which may be named Mount Hal ion and 

 Mount Winemowet for two Micmac chiefs mentioned by Cooney. 



* From the river alone one is apt to be misled as to the character of these hills along the 

 river. They appear like long ridges, and one imagines deep valleys and other ridges behind 

 them. In fact they are often but the edges of a great plateau, into which the river has cut 

 a deep valley. It is only to more or less isolated mountains and ridges that names are 

 applied in this paper. 



