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D.— Baker Lake— North-East Branch Penobscot. Marked on Hubbard and 

 Wilkiiipoii. IJetwein Moousungan on Aroostook and Spider Lake on 

 AJlagash was an important route, marked on Wilkinson and Hubbard. 

 This was no doubt the main route from the St. Joliii to the West Branch of 

 Penobscot, and thence to the Kennebec. 



Betwi-en the Little Machias and I'pper Kiigle Lake of the Eagle Lake 

 diain was a portage, given by \\'ilkiii.<on. The various portiiges between the 

 Eagle Lakes and the St. John are all on Wilkinson's map. 



5. St. John-Petitcodiac. 



N Sca/e 4 m.'/cs 



Along the Sea-Coast. No doubt this route was often used, though I find 

 no reference to it. The mouths of the streams offer good landing places for 

 canoes, but most of the coast is very bold, and most dangerous in storms. 

 For this reason it is likely that the Anagance route, next to be mentioned, 

 was oftener used as a through route. 



To avoid Cape Enrage, there 

 was a portage from Salisbury Bay 

 into Germantown Lake, and 

 thence down the Shepody River. 

 The course of the portage, as given 

 me by a resident,^ was from 

 AN'aterside north by the route fol- 

 lowed by the highway and pre- 

 sent railroad to the lake. 

 B.— Kennebecasis-Anagance. This 

 was an easy and much-used route, 

 and a part of the regular route to 

 Nova Scotia. Morris, on his map 

 of 1784, says of it : " By Portage 

 from this River to the K. Petiteco- 

 diack the Indians of New Bruns- 

 wick have comnmnication with 

 the Indians of the Peninsula of 

 Nova Scotia. " The Kennebecasi s 

 has a very gentle current to the 

 portage, and the Anagance (from the Maliseet Oo-nc-gunce, a portage) is nearly 

 a dead-water stream to the Petitcodiac, which is easily navigable to its mouth. 

 The exact route of the portage, as given me by a resident,'- is shown 

 on map No. G. It leaves the Anagance River one-half a mile west of 

 Anagance Station, and runs directly southwest to the Keunebecasis, dif- 

 tance two miles. This portage was made the starting point for a county 

 line in 1787. It is mentioned in a report by D. Campbell in 1803, who calls 

 it an Indian portage long established, and says that it was formerly the 

 route of communication between Fort Beausejour and the Acadian settle- 

 ments on the River St. John. 

 C.— "Washademoak-Petitcodiac. This was a route nuich used in travel from 

 the l'.eauséjour (or Cumberland) region to Quebec. The Wa.'<hademoak , or 

 Canaan, River is fairly easy of navigation to the ])ortage. Since the North 



* Mr. J. G. Barbor, of Cape Knragc. 

 '■' Mr O. H. Davidson, of A.Dagance. 



Map No. 6. Thk Kenneuecasis- 

 Petitcodiac Portage. 



