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 Historic Sites. 



251. 



The Gaspereau-Cains River portage is also mentioned in Cockburn's 

 Report, 92, and in Baillie's New Brunswick, 38. It is said locally 

 that the route led up six-mile brook making the carry only two miles 

 (Notes in "Chatham Advance" after March 1, 1897), but this must 

 have been a high-water route only, since Marston speaks of it as 

 seven miles long in his MS. Diary (Coll. N. B. Hist. Soc. II, 103). 

 Though of so much importance in the early settlement of the Province, 

 it appears to be shown accurately upon no early map, and the only 

 map that I have -been able to find which marks it at all is a sketch 

 by Harley in his 1826 map of Cains River. A portion of this map 

 is given herewith (Map No. 11) with the corresponding survey from 



251. 



Map No. 9. From an Old Plan; x ^. 



Fairweather's plan of 1836, upon the same scale. If Harley's dis- 

 tances are accurate, (as his location of a timber-berth on the map 

 would seem to imply) it would show that the portage left Cains River 

 about as I have indicated on the Fairweather map, in which case it 

 is put somewhat too far to the eastward on my map in Historic 

 Sites, 251. 



The suggestion of a portage from Black Brook to Barnabys River is 

 confirmed by a corrected copy of the Franquelin deMeulles map of 

 1686 which I have received from Paris (Map No. 26 of preceding 

 Cartography). It shows the continuous line, used in that map 

 for a portage, from the head of Black Brook to the head of Barnaby 



