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twenty miles. As this was tlic natural loutc In. m Frodericton to the settle- 

 ments on the Miraniichi, a road w;us built between the two rivers soon after 

 the Province was founded, and an attempt was made to settle disbanded 

 soldiers along it, with but indifferent success. The Nashwaak is easily 

 navisrable to the portaj^o, a.s is the Miramichi. 

 C— Napudogan-Miramichi Lake. A portage of three miles connected these 

 waters. It is no doubt tlie routi' referred tol)y Morris on his map of 1784 as 

 "only three miles portage between the head of this river and the south- 

 western branch of the liiver Miramichi." Munro in his report of ITS'i also 

 refers to it. though obscurely. It is marked on Raillie and Kendall, 18.32, 

 and is mentioned in Baillie's "New Brunswick." On Bouchette, IS.')!, this 

 and the preceding are confounded. It is referred to also in Vivian's 

 " Wanderings in Western Land" (page G7). 



Munro refers obscurely to a portage between the Nashwaak and the 

 Keswick, but I know nothing of such a portage. There may, however, have 

 been a portage from the Becaguimec to the Nacawicac, for where the waters 

 approach very near to one another, the branch of the former is called Indian 

 r.rof)k and Lake. 

 D.— Shikatehawk-Miramichi. Tliis route involved a long portage, some fifteen 

 miles. Its course a.s given me by a resident' is as follows : From the St. 

 John Eiver it followed the valley of the Little ShLkatehawk, an unnavigable 

 stream, to about the present Gordon ville, whence it followed about the course 

 of the present highway road, which crosses it several times, through Glass- 

 ville. Highland and Argyle to Foreston, 15 miles from the mouth of the 

 Little Shikatehawk. From Foreston the South Branch of the ^liramichi is 

 navigable to the main river, about fifteen miles. This was, and is, the shortest 

 and easiest route between the two rivers. = This is marked as an "Indian 

 Portage" on Purdy, 1814, and it is also on Bouchette of 1815, and on Baillie 

 &. Kendall of 1832 ; and it is mentioned by Cooney. " 



The same resident tells me there is an old portage road from the Odell 

 to the Falls on the North Branch Miramichi, 17 miles above the Forks, 

 and that from the head of the Deadwater on the Miramichi to the Wapske- 

 hegan are numerous portage roads used by lumbermen. I have no informa- 

 tion as to whether tliere wixs an ancient Indian route through here, but it is 

 extremely probable there was a route used by hunting parties. 

 E.— Long Lake iTobiquei to Little Southwest Miramichi Lake. This was 

 a little-used portage of some eight miles, fully de.<cril)ed by Hind, in his 

 Geological Report (page 152). Both lakes are very difficult to reach, how- 

 ever, on account of the very numerous falls and rapids on the streams leading 

 from them, and hence this was probably never a through route, but only a 

 liunter's route ; indeed it is called by the Indians, "The Hunter's portage." 

 It must have been well-known to I)e]\Ieulles, for on the fine DeMeulles- 

 Franquelin map of l(>S(i, the lakes are shown with fair accuracy in about 

 their proper relative jjositions, far bett«'r indeed than upon any other map 

 for over a hundre<l and fifty years. This portage is referred to obscurely by 

 Munro in his Report of 17.s.''>, and it is oUscurely marked upon Bouchette's 

 map of 1831. 



' Mr. John MiUer of UlaBBViUc. 



2 In tracing this route on a modern map, that of the Geological Survey should bo used, a& the 

 roads are incorrectly laid down on Loggie's Map. 



