NATURAL HISTORY AND PHYSIOGRAPHY OF NEW BRUNSWICK. 469^* 
The first known reference to the lake occurs in Hind’s Report on 
the Geology of New Brunswick (Fredericton, 1865, 152), where its 
position and size, as reported by the Indians, are mentioned. It first 
appears upon a map, but very erroneously, upon the Geological Survey 
sheet of this region of about 1888, where it seems to be laid down< 
from Hind’s description. The first map of it made from observation 
is that contained on our map of the Negoot Lakes accompanying the 
above-mentioned note, on which, however, it is shown too far to the 
westward. After our visit in 1900, a surveyor running timber lines 
in this region for the New Brunswick Railway Company ran a line 
across it (see the map), and made a crude sketch of the lake, which is 
in the Company’s office at Fredericton.* Two or three scattered 
references to the lake occur in sportsmen’s notes in “ Forest and 
Stream.” These, with my own reference in Note 39 of this series, 
seem to include the entire documentary history of the basin down to 
the present time. It has never before been visited by any naturalist^ 
and, as implied above, has never been mapped. As to its unwritten 
history, there appears to be very little. Some thirty-five years ago 
some of the excellent pine was hauled from this lake into Trowsers by 
the “ MacDougal pine road,” but it has otherwise never been lumbered. 
A few sportsmen have visited it, guided by Messrs. Alexander and* 
David Ogilvy, who know this region thoroughly, and who have a small 
hunting camp on the shore of the lake (Camp Comfort on the map). 
The name Milnagek {g hard and accent on last syllable), is Maliseet 
Indian, and signifies, very appropriately, lake with many islands. It 
is the same word as Milnocket, occurring several times in Maine. 
The other names upon the accompanying map have been given mostly 
by the Ogilvys, either descriptively or, in the case of the proper names 
for sportsmen who have been taken there by them. 
A chief point of interest about Milnagek is that it appears to be 
the most elevated lake of any importance in New Brunswick. Our 
single measurement of 1900 gave it as 1,510 feet ; but the average of 
our seventeen good measurements (see Note 53) gave it as 1,584 feet, 
which, I believe, is very nearly correct. Squaw Lake, to the eastward, 
and lying very nearly on the top of the plateau, is 175 feet higher, 
and hence 1,659 feet, but it is little more than a shallow pond. The 
other lakes, Reeds and Cabots, are not much higher than Milnagek. 
* I am indebted for a sketch of it, and of the Company’s map of the region, to Mr, 
T. Whitehead, the Company’s agent at Fredericton. 
