2S8 ROYAL SOCIETY OF CANADA 



and by Bailey in liis " St. John Hiver " (page 48). It was by either this or 

 tlic la.st-nientioiK'cl muto tliat CajUain Potc \va.s taken to Quebec in 1745, as 

 hi- (leseribes in lii.« Journal, l)ut the (lescri])tion is not clear as to wViich route 

 was followed. The conipas.s direction.s and the portage.s and lake.s mentioned 

 by him would rather indicate the Asliberisli route, though the editor of the 

 Journal sends him by tlie Lac des Aigles. This route is shown on tlie 

 rranquelin-DeMeulIes Map of 1G86,> with the continuous line used on that 

 niaj) for portage routes, and it is probably this route that is marked on 

 r.flliii (if 1741, and on many follnwing him. 



C— Temiscouata-Biviere du Loup. As early as 1 740 a portage path was pro- 

 jected along this route where now runs the highway road. A document of 

 1746 (Quebec Ms. IV., 311) reads, " Nous donnons les ordres nécessaires 

 pour faire pratiquer un chemin ou sentier d'environ 3 pieds dans le portage 

 depuis la Rivière du Loup à 40 lieues audessous de Québec jusques au Lac 

 Témisquata d'où l'on va en canot par la rivière St. Jean jusqu' à Beau- 

 ba.esin, et ce pour faciliter la communication avec l'Escadre et pour y faire 

 pixsser quelques détachement de franeois et sauvages s'il est nécessaire." 

 Whether or not this path wiu« made we do not know. In 1701 this route 

 was examined by Captain Peach (as a map in the Public Record Office 

 shows), and about 1785, a road was cut along it as a part of the post route 

 from Quebec to Nova Scotia. From that time to the present it has been 

 much travelled, and is often referred to in documents and books. 



D. — St. Francis-Riviere du Loup. The exact course of this portage I have 

 not been able to locate, but it probably ran from Lake Pohencgamook to 

 some of the lakes on the LaFourche branch of the Riviere du Loup. The 

 Indian name of the St. Francis, reech-un-ee-gan-uk means the Long Portage 

 (Peech, long, oo-ne-gun, a portage, uk, locative). The first recorded use of 

 this portage is in LeClercq in his " Etablissement de la Foi." Restates 

 that about 1624, Recollet missionaries came to Acadia from Acquitaine, 

 and thence went to Quebec in canoes by the River Loup with two French- 

 men and five Indians. It is first shown roughly on a manuscript map 

 of 1688," very clearly on Bellin, of 1744, and on several others following 

 him, and on Bouchette of 1815. It is mentioned in a document of 1700 

 (Quebec Ms. V. 348) as four leagues in length. It was by this route St. 

 Valier came from Quebec to Acadia in 1686 or 1687, and a very detailed 

 account of the difficulties of the voyage is given in his narrative He states 

 that he travelled a short distance on. the Riviere du Loup and Riviere des 

 Branches and a long distance on the St. Francis. This route he describes as 

 shorter but harder than that ordinarily used. 



On the unpublished DeRozier map of 1690, two portages are shown in 

 this region, one from some branch of what is apparently the St. Francis to the 

 Trois Pistoles, and f>ne from another river to the westward of the St. Francis, 



1 Tho lake emptying northwest and joined to two lakes flowing into Lake Medaouasca on this map 

 (copy in these Transactions, new series. III., sect. II., 3G4) is called Trois Pistoles in the original, though 

 the name is omitted on tliiscopy. I have pointed out in tho above-mentioned paper the remarkable 

 and cartographically-important error on that map by whicli the Toblquc (Negoot) is made to empty into 

 Lake Temiscouata wliere the Toulaili really enters. This error produced a profound distortion of the 

 mapH of this region for considerably over a century. It is poHiiblc that the error arose by a confusion 

 of the Indian name of the lake on theTouladi ( Abagusquash, on Bouchette, 1831) with Nipisigouichich, 

 apidied to tho Nictor branch of Tobique. 



2 Cartography of New Brunswick, 360. 



