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taken by Smethurst and fully described and mapped in the public- 

 ation above cited, and shewn on the accompanying Map No. 12; and 

 (b), that from Portage Creek at the head of Tabusintac Bay through 

 to the cove on Portage River, a route taken by Plessis in 1812. This 

 route has been described to me by an intelligent old Indian (Joe Prisk, 

 or Presque, of Bathurst) who had been over it in his youth, and the 

 white residents also know it by tradition. The original Indian path 

 has vanished, having been early replaced by the road now running 



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Map No. 12. Compiled by the Author. 



in nearly a straight line over gently rising ground between those 

 waters, and early constructed to permit winter travel from one of 

 the bays to another. From an examination of the ground I have no 

 doubt the original path left Tabusintac waters exactly where the 

 road now does, (for here Portage Creek swings close in to a bit of 

 elevated upland forming an admirable landing and camping place 

 with a cold fresh water brook just above, a better place than exists 

 anywhere for a considerable distance above or below it), and ran 



