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portage road (see the map), it 1 is a meadowy Stillwater stream, 
navigable even at low water for a canoe, winding at the bottom 
of a wide trough-like mature-looking valley of moderate depth 
(perhaps 40 to 5° feet below the general level of the country). 
Mr. O’Connor tells me it preserves this character for several 
miles to the northeastward, indeed, to and around its easterly bend. 
Now this valley, as will presently be shown, is very much older 
in appearance than any part of the 1 racadie below it ; and 
furthermore it was obviousily formed by a very much larger 
stream than that which now occupies it. It must be a fact, there- 
fore, that it does not represent the original head of the Tracadie, 
but is part of an older northeast-southwest valley. Our best maps 
(die timber-line plan§ of the Crown Land Office, followed by the 
accompanying map), show that this valley lies exactly in line 
with the present Caraquet valley, and I have no doubt they are 
parts of the ancient Caraquetian Valley described in the preceding 
note, (No. 93), where also the position of its probable head in 
Tomogonops-Portage River is discussed. 
The great bend of the Tracadie to the eastward I have un- 
fortunately not seen. At the uppermost point I reached in ascend- 
ing the stream on foot from the South Branch, viz., just east of 
this bend, the stream is of a meadowy, smoothwater, winding, 
sand-bottomed type, a character which it holds, as Mr. O’Connor 
tells me, all the way from the portage road. But the valley here 
is much narrower, steeper-walled and newer in appearance than 
is the part above, and also deeper, perhaps 70-80 feet below the 
general level. Descending, the country becomes somewhat lower, 
and the river becomes gradually swifter and shoal er, rippling in 
a clear stream over gravel and small stones, sometimes carving 
into high banks of glacial drift or of the greatly-jointed soft 
gray sandstone which constitutes the bed rock of the entire valley 
of the Tracadie. It continues thus down to the North Branch. 
This part of the river has more drop than any other part of the 
main Tracadie, and. under present conditions would form difficult 
canoeing at low water. But the present character of this, as of 
many other New Brunswick streams, is no index to its original 
character, Mr. O’Conner has told me from his personal 
