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HULLETIN OF THE NATURAL HISTORY SOCIETY. 
ARTICLE III. 
THE SOUTH TOBIQUE LAlvES. 
By G. U. Hay, 1). Sc. 
Before the end of the twentieth century there will probably be few 
unexplored regions in this province, or lakes where the tell-tale dotted 
line marks them as unsurveyed, or lakes that have no existence on our 
maps. But that is the case now. There are some eighteen lakes — 
large and small — that form the sources of the rivers and streams that 
enter the Tobique river from the south side. A third of these are 
either not marked at all or are imperfectly outlined on the maps of New 
Brunswick in common use. These lie close to the watershed that 
separates the sources of the Tobique and Miramichi water systems. 
In this region Prof. Ganong and I spent nearly four weeks during 
the summer of 1900, going in to Trowsers Lake from the Tobique 
river over a portage road twenty miles long, camping nearly a week 
at the upper extremity of that lake, whenee we made short daily 
excursions to the lakes and streams adjacent. From Trowsers Lake 
we made a portage to Long I.ake, the largest of the system. Here 
there is also within easy reach of either extremity a number of small 
lakes. From Long Lake we visited in succession, “carrying” over 
intervening portages. Portage, Adder and Serpentine Lakes. The 
outlet of the last named lake is Serpentine River, which, after a swift 
run of thirty miles, brought us to the Forks of the Tobique, nearly 
thirty miles';above the point where we started in. While Prof. Ganong 
attended to the physiographic features of the country and took measure- 
ments, I examined and collected plants, and took views by means of a 
camera. 
The country traversed is a wilderness, the low lying portions of 
which are thickly wooded with spruces, firs and other evergreens, 
giving a .somewhat sombre aspect to the country. The ridges are 
clothed with a more diversified growth of deciduous and evergreen 
trees. All the smaller lakes are shallow, and the low-lying shores. 
