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Lower, on the north bank stands out a very prominent mountain 

 (Fig. 17), which is named Mount Membertou in honor of the grand old 

 Micrnac sachem, friend of the French, and one of those who saw 

 Cartier on the North Shore in 1534. Descending the river one 

 presently sees a bare reddish summit appearing over a wooded ridge, 

 the first glimpse of Fronsac (Fig. 17), and later there comes into view 



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Fig. 17. 



the symmetrical mountain locally called Bald Mountain (Fig. 17), but 

 much better to be known as Mount Denys in honor of the first settler 

 at the mouth of the river, and the author of one of the most important 

 early works on Acadia, published in Paris in 1672. North of it lies 

 Mount Fronsac (Fig. 18), somewhat higher than Denys itself, but 

 otherwise less distinctive, named for the Sieur de Fronsac, Denys' son, 

 who lived and had a fort at Miramichi. Southwest of Denys there 



Car tier from Denys 



Vitur westward fnm Summit of J)enj/s FnnsacfromDinys 



Fig. 18. 



towers up a bare mountain visible from many points (Fig. 18), the 

 highest and most conspicuous in this vicinity (sometimes, I believe, 

 called Little Bald Mountain), which may well be named Mount Cartier 

 m honor of the first explorer and map-maker of our North Shore. To 

 the westward rises a high and prominent ridge, which is named the 

 Seigniors Ridge for the French Seigniors who once possessed much of 

 New Brunswick, and played some small part in her history. To the 

 eastward is a lower mountain, which shows more prominently from 



