NATURAL HISTORY AND PHYSIOGRAPHY OF NEW BRUNSWICK. 4G3- 
abandoned, and within the past five years lumber operations have again 
been commenced, and are now being actively carried on at the Crooked 
Dead water. About 1866 a lumber road, still called the old Mac- 
Dougal pine road, was cut from Big Lake to Milnagek, and thence to 
Trowsers Lake for hauling out pine timber, but it has now almost 
entirely vanished. A winter portage road connects the Big I^ake with 
Boiestown, over forty miles away. Again, this entire region is notable 
as the hunting and trapping ground of that prince of hunters, Mr. 
Henry Braithwaite, who knows it intimately, and who takes to it a 
number of sportsmen each autumn. It is a pity that Mr. Braith- 
waite’s knowledge of its topography and natural history cannot, through 
publication, be made available to others and safe from loss. 
Place-Nomenclature. — There is no name in use for the group, as 
a whole, and, therefore, I have revived the Indian name for the Little 
Southwest Miramichi River, namely, Tu-a-dook, universally used by 
the Micmac Indians, but of unknown meaning. Jacks Lake was given 
by Mr. R. H. Lyle during his survey of 1884, as he tells me in a 
letter, in honor of the late Edward Jack, of the Crown Land office. 
Holmes Lake appears to have been named by Mr. Lyle for a lumber- 
man. Irland Pond was named by Mr. Braithwaite, as he has told 
me, for Mr. Frederic Irland above mentioned, who shot here his first 
moose. Big Lake and Pocket Lake are descriptive, and self-expla- 
natory, and probably originated with the lumbermen. The names of 
the Islands are mostly adopted from those given by Long and Cox in 
1891, as shown on their sketch maps. Longs and Coxs are for them- 
selves; Tanaas Hares for their guides, while the others are descrip- 
tive and self-explanatory. Station (of our survey), Beaver^ Birch and 
Big Deadwater have been given by us, and are descriptive. South of 
the lake is a fine mountain which has no recognized name, and we 
propose that it be called henceforth Braithwaites Mountain^ in honor 
of Mr. Henry Braithwaite above mentioned. Another rounded moun- 
tain is udiUiQd Risteens Mountain for the late Frank Risteen, well-known 
to all lovers of the New Brunswick woods, who has hunted in this 
region, while Lyles Mountain is for R. H. Lyle who surveyed the 
region in 1884, and Bertons Ridge is for Deputy Surveyor Berton who 
surveyed the Little Southwest Miramichi River in 1838. 
Altitudes. — The heights of the lakes above sea level have bten 
discussed in a preceding note (No. 53), and are recorded upon the accom- 
