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BULLETIN OF THE NATURAL HISTORY SOCIETY. 
and some 500 to GOO feet above the Saint John, rises the Muniac. 
Its extreme source spring I did not see, but it appears to lie in 
a great wild ravine-like basin, or circ, with towering wooded 
walls, a strikingly wild and impressive place such as one sees 
but rarely in this province. Then the little stream falls rapidly 
as a very clear and beautiful mountain torrent in the bottom 
of a deep and charmingly-wooded valley. A mile or two down, 
where it receives the first large branch from the west, the valley 
opens out into a little basin with terraces and settled intervales, 
through which the stream, rapidly-enlarging but ever cosey, 
cheerful and companionable, flows more gently over gravel and 
cobbles. Thus it continues, receiving many small branches 
full as clear as itself, down to the first large branch from the 
east. Below this it narrows again, becoming once more almost 
a ravine, the walls rising steeply and the stream falling rapidly. 
And here, at a place on the west of the road, is a feature I was 
charmed to see, — namely, great ledges of granite; for their 
presence is another confirmation of my belief that all of the 
great north-and-south ridges which control the topography of 
this part of New Brunswick possess intrusive cores, where they 
are not composed wholly of intrusive rock. Below, the valley 
again opens out, is settled somewhat, and receives the Inman 
Branch from the east out of another great ravine- valley. Then, 
below the Kincardine Road, the valley narrows again and becomes 
steep-walled, this part, like all of the narrow parts, being 
unsettled and incapable of settlement; while the clear and 
fast-growing waters pour down over a rocky bed. The valley 
opens out a little at the grist-mill, half a mile from the Saint 
John, then closes in more narrowly than ever; here the stream 
winds with much fall and is cutting into slate ledges in the 
bottom of a V-shaped valley, so narrow that the mill-dam at 
its mouth holds the water against walls of ledge rock. Then 
suddenly, after a course of about ten miles from its source, it 
pours its waters, sullied now by the refuse ol the mill, through 
a narrow gap into the Saint John.* 
♦Certain minor points of interest concerning the river have been communicated to me by 
Mr. Benjamin Kilburn, a prominent resident of Kilbum settlement at its mouth. He says 
