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east. Furthermore I believe a Northumbrian valley can be 
traced directly across it, for the Eskedelloc and upper Tabusintac, 
the depression in the plateau about the head of tide on Tracadie, 
and the course of the Little Tracadie all lie in a line, and that in 
the direction proper for the old Northumbrian series (Tracadian 
Valley of the preceding note). In its easterly, instead of north- 
easterly direction, it is not unique, since the Pokemouche, to some 
extent the Little Tracadie, and the Tabusintac, also show this 
easterly, or even southeasterly, direction for their lower courses, 
though the Northumbrian valleys can be traced in the northeast- 
erly direction. These easterly courses I presume are connected 
with the formation of the great trough originating Miramichi 
Bay, a syncline parallel with Bay Chaleur and Bay of Fundy. It 
i« on the slope of this syncline, I take it, these rivers have been 
formed, thus acquiring their present directions which represent 
a compromise, as it were, between the original northeasterly slope 
of the country and the southeasterly slope of the syncline walls. 
In pre-glacial times, no doubt, the Tracadie emptied directly east- 
ward just north of Point a Barreau, but since the Glacial Period 
has emptied through one of the old Northumbrian valleys, a 
continuation of that of Portage River, the Tabusintian Valley t»f 
the Northumbrian system. 
95. On the Height and Other Characters of Wilkinson 
Mountain. 
Read December 5, 1905. 
Near the source of the Walkemik, or Upper North Branch, of 
the Little Southwest Miramichi rises Wilkinson Mountain, one 
of the highest and most important mountains of New Brunswick. 
In my description of this region in Note No. 87, I gave some ac- 
count of it, and mapped its approximate position,* but I had not 
then been on its summit. In July last I was able to ascend it, 
measure its elevation, and make some other observations which 
follow. 
*As thus mapped iit is somewhat too far from Hougih Lake; compare 
the map accompanying Note No. 99 following. 
