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Lake lie in the extension northward. Another crest comes 
below Blue Rock Brook, and a trough at Six Mile Brook, of 
which the valley of Big Fork of Salmon River may be an extension. 
Then follows another crest, with another trough at Sabbies 
River and the lower course of Cains River, a trough which is 
continuous with that of the northwest Miramichi, after which 
comes another crest. If these troughs and crests actually exist 
they are probably minor synclines and anticlines parallel with 
those larger ones which have given the north coast of New 
Brunswick its form, and have made the Straits of Northumber- 
land and Prince Edward Island. 
Supplement to Note 118. — The Ancient Indian Portage 
from Cains River to the Gaspereau. 
One of the most interesting of the features of Cains River, 
and one which will remain of interest to the people of New 
Brunswick as long as they care for their history at all, is the 
ancient porthge route which connected this river with the 
Gaspereau, as a link in the most important aboriginal route of 
travel from the Miramichi to the St. John waters. Its importance 
is witnessed by the references which occur in our early records, 
(all of which are summarized in the Transactions of the Royal 
Society of Canada , V, 1899, ii, 251 and XII, 1906, ii, 93,) and 
also by physiographic or geographical probabilities, — since this 
route is by far the easiest of travel, and most practicable at all 
seasons, between the St. John and Miramichi systems. It was 
used, no doubt, by the Indians from the time of their earliest 
migration into this part of America; it was surely the principal 
route of the French when they had to move back and forth 
through Acadia in the troubled times of the expulsion, and it 
was even used as a regular route of travel by the English after 
the foundation of the Province. But although thus historically 
important, it has, by one of those freaks of historical fortune 
which are sufficiently common, escaped exact description in maps 
or records, and, having been now for over a half century out of 
use and having therefore become overgrown by the forest, it 
has been only by a combination of the fragmentary historical 
records, the recollection of certain old people who knew it when 
still in use, and a minute examination of the country itself that 
I have been able to recover its location with certainty. 
