NATURAL HISTORY AND PIIYSIOORAPTI Y OF NEW BRUNSWICK. 471 
intrusive origin assigned to this granite by the geologists of the 
province. 
The lake is very irregular in depth, as is to be expected from its 
mode of origin, with a maximum of forty-two feet. The places of 
greatest depth mark clearly enough the course of the original channel 
or valley, which evidently lay near to the western side. 
A very remarkable feature of this basin is the way its inlets inter- 
lock with those of the Little Southwest Miramichi system, as is shown 
by the map. This interlocking takes place upon the surface of the 
plateau, and shows how nearly level the latter is. It is most remark- 
able of all, however, at the Squaw Barren. This is an opened bog of 
the raised or “ Hochmoor ” type. On the west it drains into Squaw 
Lake, an affluent of Tobique, and on the southeast into Rumsey Lake, 
a beaver pond draining into the Little Southwest Miramichi. It can- 
not often be that such a bog forms the watershed between two systems 
so important. 
These lakes abound in moose, caribou, deer and smaUer game, with 
some beaver and abundant trout. Gulls nest on the islands, but 
otherwise we noted nothing remarkable in the natural history of these 
lakes. 
Finally we consider the economics of the region. It contains 
some pine and spruce of value which will of course in time be removed, 
and its big game will make it increasingly attractive to sportsmen. 
It is of no value for agriculture, and its chief use is marked out by 
nature, as a part of that great forest and game reserve for which 
central New Brunswick is so admirably fitted. There is, however, 
another use for it suggested by its elevation and general attractiveness, 
namely, as a sanitarium for lung troubles, for which it should be better 
adapted than any place I have met with in New Brunswick. At 
present it is very difficult of access, but this will not always be the 
case. 
