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River. I find also that the latest plans in the Crown Land Office 

 show these waters approaching very near one another. 



I have been told by a resident that there was formerly a trail, 

 " Sock Renou's Trail," from Indiantown apparently to the Little 

 Southwest. 



The Nashwaak-Miramichi portages from Cross Creek to near 

 Boiestown, are very clearly shown in detail on one of the road maps 

 in the Crown Land Office. 

 Long Lake to Little Southwest Miramichi Lake. This portage path, 

 traversed by Hind in 1864 has now completely vanished. I have 

 myself crossed from Long Lake via Milnagek to Little Southwest 

 Lake with a companion on a trail in part made by hunters and in 

 large part made by following an old pine-road. (Compare in Bull. 

 N. H. S. IV, 461, 468) 



I have also, aided by one companion, portaged canoe and outfit 

 from Tobique to Little Southwest Miramichi waters, making our 



Map No. 10. Form Crawley's Survey of 1846 ; x J. 



own trail, going from Portage Lake along the streams and ponds 

 emptying into Adder Lake and thence across Upper Graham plain 

 to Gover Lake, as noted in Bull. N. H. S., V, 329. Furthermore I have 

 been told by Mr J. W. Hoyt of Andover N. B., who has run timber- 

 lines In this region that the Indians have told him they had an 

 ancient hunting trail from the Serpentine waters over Cow or Thun- 

 der Mountain to the Dunn Lake waters and vicinity. 



It is also very probable that an ancient hunting-route of impor- 

 tance extended along the Portage Brook, a branch of the North Pole 

 Branch, heading over near Mitchell Lake of the Walkemik Basin 

 (compare Bulletins of the Natural History Society of N. B., V, 338 

 and 466). The North Pole is a remarkably easy and beautiful 

 canoe stream, while the Little Southwest Miramichi above the North 

 Pole is extremely rough and difficult. The North Pole and Portage 

 Brook therefore offer a far easier route to the lakes of the Walkemik 

 Basin than does the Little Southwest and the Walkemik itself. The 

 name Portage Brook, however, was given by Mr. Henry Braithwaite, 

 as he tells me, because of his own use of it as a portage stream 

 on one occasion. 



