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numerous and larger falls and rapids, being sometimes in- 
accessible for considerable distances. A more curious and 
more interesting feature is the fact that many of the 
streams, on either side of the general water-shed seem to 
have been but little affected by the position of the latter, 
having their source upon one side of this and their discharge 
upon the other. Thus in the Gaspé peninsula, as described 
by Richardson and. others, the Matane, the Ste. Anne des 
Monts and the Chatte all take their sources south of the 
general height of land, and have cut deep gorges through 
the latter on their way to the St. Lawrence, while one 
branch of the Matane, rising north of the axis, flows across 
the latter to its junction with the main stream, and thus has 
its waters twice intersect the principal range of elevations. 
On the other hand the St. Francis, rising in a lake of the 
Same name, is only twelve miles distant from the St. 
Lawrence, and several miles north of the sources of the 
Trois Pistoles, and yet flows southward across the range to 
its junction with the St. John. 
Another noticeable feature is the number, size and depth 
of the lakes connected with the streams draining the 
southern side of the water-shed. Of these, Lake Temis- 
couata is the largest, being about thirty miles in length, 
with a breadth varying from one to two miles, and a depth 
(which is nearly uniform through a large part of its length) 
of 220 feet, its elevation above the sea being 467 feet. Lake 
Metapedia has an area of twelve square miles, about half that 
of Temiscouata, and an elevation of 480 feet, but has much 
less depth. Near Temiscouata, and in connection with it, are 
the Squatook Lake and Cabano Lake, both remarkable for 
their depth, while farther west, on the line of the St. 
Francis, are Pohenagamook or Boundary Lake, Glazier’s and 
Beau Lake. It is noticeable that most of these lakes occupy 
long narrow troughs having a nearly north and south 
course, or transverse to the trend of the hills in which they 
lie, and that this course is extended in nearly the same 
direction by the streams to which they give origin. The 
valleys of these streams, as in the case of the Metapedia 
