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is shown on a map in the Bulletin of the N. B. Nat. Hist. Soc. XXII, 

 216. Also I have found a note given me by the late Michael Flinne, 

 showing apparently that the Indians knew of this portage, and had 

 a name for it, which he gives as Es-kut-da-gum-moocli-ica-ga-dik. 



The portage mentioned by Hardy in his Forest Life in Acadie, 

 240, is probably that by Portage River. 



It is also very probable there was another portage between these 

 waters, for, as shown by the map just cited, there is a very 

 short distance between the source of the Northwest Miramichi and 

 the upper part of the South Branch of Nepisiguit. I have myself 

 portaged through this way. (Bulletin of the N. B. Nat. Hist. Soc. 

 XXII, 216). 

 256. A MS. plan of the disputed territory, by W. Anson, 1839 (1841) in the 

 Crown Land Office marks a portage from Grand River to Restigouche 

 several miles east of the rWagan portage; but it is likely a mistake. 



The mention of a route from the Madawaska River to Bay 

 Chaleur in Fisher's " Sketches of New Brunswick, " 27, must be an 

 error; such a route is only possible by a very roundabout course. 



256. The Green River- Kedgewick portage has been several times surveyed, 



and has been mapped with the greatest minuteness in connection 

 with boundary surveys made between 1820 and 1842. Thus it is 

 described fully by Tiarks in 1820 in his report embodied in the " Case 

 of the U. S. laid before the King of the Netherlands, " and it is 

 shown in the utmost detail in the fine map of Green River made by 

 the American Surveyors in 1842 (now in the Department of State 

 at Washington). 



There are references to the long portage between the Little 

 Tobique and the West Branch of Upsalquitch in the Bulletin N. B. 

 Nat. Hist. Soc. No. XXII, 180. There is an obscure reference to it 

 in Baillie's New Brunswick, 93. Mr. W. H. Venning has told me that 

 it was formerly known to the Indians and that it reached the Little 

 Tobique at the angle of that stream. 



I have also been told by a reliable Tobique guide, who knows 

 the country well, that there was formerly " a place where they used 

 to lug across, " starting ten miles up Big Cedar Brook and running 

 across to a branch of Restigouche, he thinks Five-finger Brook, a 

 distance of about twelve miles. 



The Indian name of Stillwater Brook on the Restigouche is Med- 

 au-an-e-gan-uk, meaning carrying-place (containing the root, on-eg- 

 un = a portage). This perhaps indicates a portage to a branch of 

 the Southwest Branch Upsalquitch. 



The principal Nepisiguit- Upsalquitch portage, by way of Upsal- 

 quitch Lake, is fully described and mapped in the Bulletin of the 

 N. B. Nat. Hist. Soc. XXI, 77. 



257. The Patapedia- Metis portage and the rivers are fully described by 



Richardson in the Report of the Geological Survey for 1858, 119. 



The Touladi -Trois Pistoles route is mapped completely from 

 Indian Reports on the valuable Sproule map of 1787 reproduced 

 herewith (Map No. 14). 



