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towards the cove at Portage River somewhat to the southwest of the 

 present road, reaching the cove at the elevated ground still used as 

 a canoe landing there. Its general route it shown on the accompany- 

 ing Map No. 12, which shows also its starting point from Portage 

 Creek, which is copied from an old plan in the Crown Land Office. 



I have also been told by an old Indian at Church Point that a 

 portage existed from a small brook, apparently Cowassiget, to the 

 Portage River; but his knowledge of the subject seemed to me too 

 uncertain to be trustworthy. 



The portage from Tracadie to Pokemouche, which I find is known 

 by tradition to residents in the vicinity as well as to the Indian Joe 

 Prisk, ran from near the extreme head of Tracadie Bay across a low- 

 country, less than two miles, to the Southeastern extremity of the 

 South River of Pokemouche as shown in the map in my edition 

 of Smethursts narrative. Very near the head of Tracadie Bay is 

 a little brook, up which a canoe can be pushed through a marsh, 

 and where probably the path started. The South River ends in an 

 extensive bog, just before reaching which as one ascends it is a tiny 

 cove coming close against the upland on the south, and here I think 

 in all probability was the other end of the portage. The old path, 

 which is said to have been about two miles long, has vanished 

 here also, being replaced by the road from Green Point settlement, 

 ^ near by, to the Pokemouche waters. This route, no doubt taken 



by Smethurst in 1761, would be that followed by travel- 

 lers going up the Pokemouche waters; if simply proceeding along the 

 coast they would of course go along the shore outside if weather 

 permitted, and if it did not, they could carry along the beach from Tra- 

 cadie Bay, past Green Point settlement, and I have been told both by 

 an old resident of Green Point and by an Indian that Indians travelled 

 that way in former times. But it is possible that yet another early 

 portage existed between Tracadie and Pokemouche waters, for 

 early plans name the brook now called Peters Brook, Waganchifch, 

 which means " the little portage, " though others mark it as Indian 

 Cove. Possibly however the name refers simply to the early portage 

 road cut from Caraquet to Tracadie, which crossed the Pokemouche 

 here and continued up this cove. 



From Pokemouche to St. Simon there appear to have been at 

 least two portages. The westernmost was that which I have worked 

 out (and mapped) theoretically as extending from a branch of 

 Waugh River to River Brideau, probably that taken by Smethurst 

 f in 1761. Its course is marked upon the map in my edition of Sme- 



thurst's narrative. 



I have since been able to examine this route at both ends and 

 I find that an old portage road, said locally to have been 

 made by a lumberman named Welmer, and still partly in use, 

 starts from the Western extremity of the branch of the Waugh 

 and extends across over open barren and through woods two miles 

 or more to the River Brideau, which it reaches as shown on Map 

 No. 33. This seems to be the road locally called " Pokemouche Port- 

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