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The Madiiwaskii Kivcr has hardly any current and. but one rapid 

 which is called '' Mttlc Falls", at the place where it llows into the Saint 

 John. Ncvci'tlieh'ss, and it is a i'act which has ni^'er been exi)lained, the 

 Miuhiwaska seldom Ireezes over in winter ; at one spot near the dis/harge, 

 no ice has ever been seen. Hence the name of " Dcijele " which has been 

 added lo lliat ol' 8ainte Rose to serve as a distinct ive a|ipellation ibr that 

 pnrish. It in ])rit>lit and intensely cold weather the Madixwaska freezes 

 from one b;ink to the other, it is never safe to venture to cross over on 

 it with a vehiele. If tire sky clouds over durinu' tlied'iy the newly Ibrmed. 

 i"e cracks in all ilireetions and is not stron^• enoun'h to bear the wt'ig'ht 

 of Vehicles. The fact of Lake Temiscouata takiiiii' a loner time to freeze 

 over is explained to a certain extent by its i^'^'iit depth, l)Utatthe "Dei^ele " 

 th(^ water is far Irom dee]) and in very cold \vather a heavy misl rises 

 from it which has always j^'reatly puzzled th- inhabitants of the locality. 

 AVild ducks wliich are ([uite indiiferenl to liie phenomena of Nature, 

 remain at the Deyele all winter. 



n l-'aviuii,- tlie parish of Ste Uo.s-.', we "rosf! that of St-.Tacques md. 

 finally arriA'e at fJdmundston. after a charmint^ run of twenty one miles 

 aluni>- ihe Madawaska river. 



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Edmundston is a very pretty littb" town which occupies a remark- 

 ably g.);>d I!,- ■ographii-al position at the (^onlluenci' of tlie Madawaska 

 and St. .lolu) liivers. Sim-e trade and communications withthe surround- 

 ing (;ouHi ry liave ;issu)ned some imporianct!, Kdmnndston has rapidly 

 incre. sed in size. Its hinil)er trade is immense and urows daily. Its 

 poi)ulalion is not considerabl" as yet l)ut it has doubled dnrinsi- th-.; jnist 

 four or iivc years 'j hi>; rapid increase is due, iu (he lirsl plac ■. io its 

 sii nation, ih; ii to the construction of tiie Tcniiscouala Railway, and 

 iinally tu th Mlecadeiice of the place called " drand l^'alls '", thirty six 

 miles b 'low Edmundston, on the St. John River. The (Irand Falls are 

 abiiui a hundred teet hiuh and over. Formerly \vlien large (luanlilies of 

 saw lops lloati'd down th" riv^r to that jtoint, th -y Were phivu-d on carts 

 <'oiistrucied for the |)uri)Ose aiid luuiled overland to the fool of t he falls 

 wh"ri' they were aL>ain rolled into the water. This u,'avt> employment to 

 sevral hundred men and a u' real nunil>t>roihorses which nuule (Irand b'alls 

 a business place of yreal impo'taiice and a i>-reat c Mitre of activity. Rut 

 nn\v thai a railway has b >en l)eilt alon:^ the River St. John, conn 'cting 

 I'ldmnndsloii with all the rest of I'few Brunswick, the lumbL'rsawn in the 

 EdiiiUiuL-fliin mills is shipp d by railway aiul the local industry of Grand 

 l"\iils has, coiisecjuently, no longer any reason for its existence. 



iMlmundstou forms jiart of the parish of Madawaska whi(di, in 1881, 

 had a |)opulation oi' nine hundred and now has two hundred moro. 



