ARTICLE II. 
REMARKS ON THE HYDROGRAPHY OF NEW 
BRUNSWICK. 
By Joseph Whitman Bailey, 
Read June 6, 1905. 
In view of the careful hydrographic surveys of New England 
made in recent years by the United States Geological Survey, it 
is noteworthy that New Brunswick, which affords a most inter- 
esting field in this respect, has received scant attention. The 
questions involved have at least as much economic as scientific 
value. 
A noticeable general feature is that quick-flowing rivers of 
the southerly portion of the Province become so low in the late 
summer that navigation, even by canoe, is difficult or impossible, 
while nearly all rivers of the northern patt, indeed many mere 
brooks, contain a quite copious flow of water. A general division 
line between the two classes may be taken as following the valley 
of the Southwest Miramichi up to the forks, and thence striking 
across country to Andover. While the Nerepis, for instance, may 
be nearly if not quite dry above the “deadwater” near its moutn, 
the Indian freely poles his loaded canoe up the Quisibis or 
Gounamitz, streams of no greater hydrographic area. The basin 
of the Magaguadavic at St. George equals, perhaps exceeds, that 
of the Nepisiquit at its Grand Fal’s, but how inferior is the low- 
water volume of discharge ! Upper Garden’s Creek, in Prince 
William, equalling in length some small northern rivers, occasion- 
ally becomes quite dry at its mouth, while the Mactaquac and 
Pokiok make little better showing. Some small southerly brooks 
at times contain running water in their upper parts, while quite 
dry below. The writer remembers catching a good string of 
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