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communicate with branches of the Restook and Penobscot." The 

 route must have been into the Matawamkeag branch of Penobscot, 

 and, owing- to the smallness of the streams, must have been a diiïîcult, 

 and probably only high-water, route. I have found no other mention 

 of such route. That to Restook was probably from North Branch 

 into Mesardis. 



246. Kennebecasis-Anagance. From the references to this portag-e in the N. 

 B. Acts, 17S6-1836, 561, from an old plan (reproduced in Map No. 6) 

 and from its length, which is several times recorded as only two miles, 

 it appears that its course is laid down on the map in the Monograph 

 much too far to the eastward; it really left the Anagance about where 

 the highway and railroad touch one another, and ran nearly true S. 

 to the Kennebecasis somewhat east of the present highway road from 

 one river to the other. 



Map No. 6. From an Old Plan ; x |. 



247C. The course of the Washademoak-Petitcodiac Portage as here given, 

 is, I am now convinced, erroneous. Its exact course has been 

 given me by Dr. B. S. Thorne, of Havelock, who has heard of it 

 from his father and uncle both of whom knew it when still a path. 

 It followed almost precisely the present course of the high- 

 way road, leaving the Petitcodiac about two miles below the Ana- 

 gance, crossing the North River near Bennetts Brook, and following 

 the highway through Butternut Ridge; A mile or two from the Wash- 

 ademoac the Portage path diverged to the westward of the present 

 road. At this place a great many relics of both French and Indian 

 occupation have been found, and it appears to have been an important 

 early camp site as mentioned earlier in these Addenda. Mr. Thome's 



