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7 - The Vinian Valley. Headed in the Taxes, following the Main 
Southwest to the mouth of Cains River, then by Black Brook and a part 
of Baunaby River (the waters of the two latter streams conning much 
closer together than shown upon any printed map, fide MS. plans in the 
Crown Land Office),' thence to Bay du Van River, which apparently for- 
merly emptied through Lower Bay du Vin, as shown on the map. 
8. The Matquantian Valley, — (from the Indian name, Matquanticook 
or Black River). Headed in Bartholomews River, (which does not now 
head in the Highlands, but which further study will probably show to 
have done so), along Bartholomews, a' short reach of the Main Southwest, 
it he Semiwagan and Black River, which emptied south of Vin Island 
hcross the present position of Fox Island. 
9. The Napanian Valley. Headed in the Dungarvon, probably in King- 
Brook (though perhaps in the Upper Tuadook, Note 86) and thence along 
Dungarvon to the Main Southwest as far as Barnaby River, thence across 
to the Napan and Miramichi Bay. 
10. The Miramichian Valley. Headed in the present upper Dungar- 
von and beyond in) the upper waters of Tuadook and Rocky Brook (Note 
86), probably across to South Branch Renous, with Branches as shown on 
'•the map, and by Renous, and across to the tidal part of the Little South- 
west as shown on the map, and thence along the present Miramichi and 
along the north shore of Miramichi Bay, thus forming the axkl river of 
the system. The complicated relations of the South Branch Renous and 
Dungaivon are uncertain, and perhaps the headwaters of this valley belong 
with the present Dungarvon. 
Such seems to me the most probable arrangement of these 
valleys from such data as I have at hand. It is however possible 
that the arrangement may have been different in detail. Thus 
a part of Cains River may have run into Bay du Vin River, the 
Taxes and Main Southwest into Black River, Bartholomews into 
~Napan, Dungarvon forming the axial river. Or (the Dungarvon 
may have flowed by Stewarts Midstream. I have no question 
whatsoever that a careful study on the ground, or the possession 
of accurate contour maps of the region, would enable us to 
settle these questions, at least to a high degree of probability. 
11. The Tuadookian Valley. — From Tuadook, the Indian name of the 
Little Southwest Miramichi'. Headed in the Tuadook Lake region, and 
no doubt in the Walkemik Basin (Note 87), the connection of this basin 
with the present Little Southwest Miramichi (with a preglacial course 
through 'Mains Lake and Brook, Note 54) being much later in origin; 
followed the North Branch Renous (Note 85), to McKendrick Brook, by 
