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of Lake Utopia, called by liim the ' Pijiul ' ) is 300 Rods about 300 Rods Up 

 Sd. Cove there is an Indian Carrying jihice which goes a Cross to the Salt 

 ■\Vatt<^r these are the Courses of Sd. Carrying i)hice, viz : N. 30, W. 50 Rods ; 

 N. 40 Rods ; N. 37, W. 50 Rods these Courses is tucken fnjin the Salt waiter 

 and Runn towards the pond." The portage is marked on the Hedden and 

 Campbell map of 1707 and on several plans. One can easily see where it 

 started near the end of the cove and went over tiie lowest part of the ridge, 

 entirely in what is now open fields. 



The portiige around the falls at St. George wiUi a short distance to the 

 eastward across the narrowest part of the neck. It is marked on the 

 Hedden-Campbell map and mentioned by Captain Owen in his Journal of 

 1771, though he gives it far too great a ilistance from the falls. 



Purdy'î- map of 1S14 marks a pt)rlage 

 from tlie INIagaguadavic to the Piskahegan, 

 but this is no doubt an error, and meant 

 to lead to the Oromocto. 

 D. — Pokiok -Magaguadavic. Probably not much 

 used. The Iledden and Campbell Field-book 

 gives from Mud Lake a " Portage to R. Pe- 

 kuyauk" and the portages between Little 

 Magaguadavic and ]\Iud Lakes are fully 

 shown on their map. A ])lan of 1S27 marks 

 a direct path from Little j\I;igaguadavic Lake 

 to Lake George, and reads, "Indian Road 

 to Lake George, 3 miles," which must mean 

 8 miles. This portage is also mentioned by 

 Ward (p. (33). 

 E.— Eel River-Cbiputneticook. This was one of 

 the most used and important of all the ancient 

 Indian routes of travel in this part of America, 

 for it not only formed the chief route from 

 the St. John to Passamaquoddy, but as well 

 was part of the great route to the Penobscot. 

 This route from the St. John to the Scoo- 

 dic Lakes in Maine is fully described ^ in the 

 Journal of Colonel John Allan, who passed 

 over it in 1777 with a large company of In- 

 dians, and passed by tlie Scoodic to Ma- 

 chias. He gives as the Indian name of the 

 Eel River — North Lake portage, Metagniou- 

 chschesh. It is shown on Allan's map of 

 1786, on Bouchette, 1815, and on many 

 others since then, and also on an Indian Map 

 of 1798.2 It was by this routt» John Gyles 

 w.us brought to New Brunswick in 1()89, but 

 his account of it is very brief in his narrative. There is some account of 

 it in Bangor IIi.«torical ■Magazine, 18!)2, 159. 



The l(»wer part of Eel River, below the jiresent village of Benton, is mi- 

 navigable for canoes because of falls and rapids, which were avoided by the 



1 In Kidder'8 "Revolutionary Operations," pp. UT-ia."?. 



- In the Library of the Maine Uistorical Society. Ueproduced in Magazine of American History, 

 XXVI., 204. 



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Map No. 2. The Mkductic- 



EeL RiVEK I'OKTAGE. 



From a plan of 1827 ; x \. 



