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An Indian portage route, (no doubt only a hunting route not 

 a line of through travel), extended up the Forks Branch of Canaan 

 River, across by a portage, one and a half miles in length, to the 

 Lake Branch, and down that stream to Salmon River, as I am 

 informed by Mr. I. T. Hetherington, on the authority of an aged 

 resident of Queens County. The MS. plans in the Crown Land 

 Office show these waters approaching thus near to one another, 

 although no printed map thus represents them. 



241C. The Oromocto-Magaguadavic Portage is fully described and mapped 

 in the Bulletin of the N. B. Natural Hist. Soc. No. XXII, 192, and 

 map opposite 194. On Purdy's Cabotia (map) of 1814 the portage 

 from the Piskahegan to the Magaguadavic is evidently an engraver's 

 error, made by joining the Magaguadavic-Oromocto and Oromocto- 

 Piskahegan portages into one. The latter portage is mentioned in 

 the field-book of the survey of the Magaguadavic in 1796-1797, in 



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Map No. 3. From Bruce, 

 1764 ; X |. 



Map No. 4. From a Plan 

 OF 1827; X ,%. 



these words; — "From the head of this river [Piskahegan] there is 

 a short portage (% a mile) to a branch of the Oromocto. " It was 

 no doubt from Little to Peltoma Lakes. 



The important Magaguadavic-Scoodic portage route has been 

 fully worked out, and it is mapped in detail and described in the 

 Bulletin of the N. B. Nat. Hist. Soc. XXI, 45. 



There is an error in this description, for I find the plan here mentioned 

 (Map No. 4) applies the name Little Magaguadavic Lake to Cran- 

 berry Lake of the present maps; hence the length of the portage to 

 Lake George is nearly correct. This portage is better shown in a 

 map in the Field-book of the 1796-1797 Survey, (Map No. 5.) which 

 marks it " Portage supposed to go to a branch of the R. Pekuyauk. " 

 This map also shows the old portage between the two Cranberry 



