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Indian Cove just to the west of the point, where there is still a camping- 

 gronnd, across to the beach half waj- between Duck Cove and the Point. ^ 

 I have also been told by old residents that there were formerly paths or 

 trails from near the bridge on Lepreau Basin over to the head of Dipper 

 Harbor, a distance of less than two miles. These were possibly former por- 

 tages. There is a very shallow valley from the head of Lepreau Basin over 

 to a deadwater on Moose Creek about a mile away, whence the descent is 

 easj" into Little Dipper Harbor, but I cannot find that any j^ortage path 

 went through this way. Near Point Lepreau on early French maps is a 

 Havre du Portage, which on English maps is Carriage Harbor (see my Place- 

 Nomenclature, page 225). On an old plan of before 1784 the name is applied 

 to Dipper Harbor, while on Wright's fine map of 1772 it is given to the first 

 cove east of the point. Doubtless the name refers to the use of the cove 

 as part of the x:)ortage route. 



B. — South Oromocto-Lepreau. This was no doubt an unimportant route used 

 only by hunting j)arties, never as a through route. It is known to me only 

 by its presence on Mahood's survey map of 1837, where it occurs as " Indian 

 Portage, distance about 2j miles," running from Tomoowa or Cranberry 

 Lake to the southern end of South Oromocto Lake.- The south branch of 

 Oromocto is hard to navigate because of its lo^\' water, and the Lepreau be- 

 cause of its incessant heavy rapids and falls. 



C. — Oromocto -Magaguadavic. This route seems to have been considerably 

 used. It is mentioned on the Morris map of 1784 and elsewhere, and is 

 shown clearly in the Field-book of the Hedden and Campbell survey of 

 1796-1797. As there marked, it runs from just above the Stones' Brook 

 of the modern maps to near the southern end of the lake, and is stated to 

 be three miles long. The Oromocto is fairly easy of navigation, except for 

 its low water, but the JNIagaguadavic is much broken by raj^ids and falls. 

 According to M. H. Perley, it was by this route in 1761 an exploring party 

 led by Israel Perley reached the St. John from Machias. Over this route, 

 too, went Captain West with a party in 1777, retreating from the St. John. 

 (Kidder, 111, 113). In Allan's map of 1786 the portage route from 

 r\Iagaguadavic to Oromocto clearly runs up the Piskahegan and through 

 two small lakes, (Peltoma and Little Lakes,) but I have no other infor- 

 mation about such a route. This would be a shorter route between the 

 mouths of the two rivers. 



From the Magaguadavic there was a jwrtage to the St. Croix. It is 

 marked as "Portage said by Indians to lead to the Cheputnaticook " in 

 the Hedden and Campbell Field-book of 1796-1797. It starts from Cran- 

 berry Brook on Lake Magaguadavic and probably ran to the Second Lake of 

 the Little Digdeguash chain over a very rough but not hilly country. It is 

 mentioned also by Allan in 1793 (Kidder, 306), and by Gesner in his Fourth 

 Report on the Geology of N. B., 40. 



There was another poi'tage of some importance from the Magaguadavic 

 to the Letang, from near the south-eastern extremity of Lake Utopia. It is 

 described by John Mitchel in his Ms. Field Book (now in the library of the 

 Maine Historical Society) of his survey of Passamaquoddy in 1764, as 

 follows : — "The depth of Sd. Cove (i. e. that at the south eastern extremity 



1 As I have been told by Mr. Thomas, keeper of the Lighthouse, and have myself seen. 



2 It is shown in part on a map in Bulletin of the Natural History Society of New Brunswick, 

 No. XVI., page 59. 



