36 PEAT BOGS OF NEW BRUNSWICK. 



a bed of shell-marl and could be drained easily, though covered 

 by a scrubby growth of wood. Tlie highway is about a quarter 

 of a mile distant, and the Intercolonial railway a mile. 



3. At the head of the northeast branch of Portage brook, an 

 affluent of the Nepisiquit river, near the portage route between 

 it and Upsalquitch Lake, a peat bog was observed. It is prob- 

 ably a mile long in a north-east and south-west direction, and 

 from a quarter to half a mile wide, occupying appar- 

 ently a former lake basin. The height above sea level is about 

 800 feet. This bog seemed to contain good living peat and to be 

 deep. Situated away in the heart of the country as it is, without 

 road or railway near it, its value for economic purposes is at pres- 

 ent nil. 



4. Two and a half to three miles north of Bartibog station, 

 Intercolonial railway, a peat bog occurs, which is probably a 

 mile or more in length, and fully half a mile wide but of irregu- 

 lar form. The central parts are without trees, but small black 

 spruce and hacmatac grow in the marginal or thinner portions of 

 the bog. 



5. Just north of Bartibog station. Intercolonial railway, an- 

 other peat bog was noted. It is also of an irregular form, 

 especially where the railway crosses it, but expands towards the 

 east. Its surfaee features are of course precisely similar to those 

 of the last mentioned bog, both being level and treeless in the 

 centre. The depth is unknown, but it is not supposed to be 

 great, as depressions in the Carboniferous plain are generally 

 shallow. These bogs, nevertheless, contain workable peat and 

 their proximity to railway communication enhances their value. 



6. The neck of land (isthmus) between St. Simon Inlet and 

 Pokemouche harbour is formed entirely of peat. Like most of 

 the large bogs of New Brunswick the central part is raised 10 to 

 15 feet higher than the margin. This bog covers an area of 

 nearly 1000 acres, and having the sea on two sides could easily 

 be drained. The peat is remarkably clean and free from dirt. 

 It lies about three miles from Caraquet village and is crossed by 

 the Caraquet railway. 



7. Another bog or "cranberry barren" a mile, or a mile and a 



