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matter of some interest in connection with the agricultural future 
of that region. Again Mr. Edward Jack records snow on Sep- 
tember 30 on the headwaters of the Little Southwest Miramicbi 
(Acadiensis, V. 137). 
Another weather phase of some interest, on which, however, 
I have only impressions and no figures, is the frequency of 
showers in the Highlands. During several trips I have exper- 
ienced heavy showers, often to an annoying extent, and they 
seemed to me much more frequent than I had ever observed else- 
where in the Province. I think it very probable that the Central 
region is elevated enough to produce rain from clouds which 
would pass over the lower parts of the Province without precipi- 
tation. If this is true, it would not be the forested condition of 
the country alone which keeps up the summer level of the streams 
in the Central Highlands, but the larger water-supply as well. 
97. On the Physical Geography of Miscou. 
Read in abstract, Dec. 5, 1905. 
The northeasterly part of New Brunswick extends a long 
angle out into the sea, and, undulating down beneath its surface, 
ends in a line of peninsulas and islands of which the ultimate is 
Miscou. An island curiously formed and forever in change, 
haunt of wild life and center of quiet scenic charm, storied of old, 
remote from progress, primitive in population, it appeals to our 
interest in many a different way. But we are concerned now 
with the method of its origin and the curious facts of its physical 
geography. 
We note first the development of our knowledge of its scien- 
tific phenomena, and begin with its geography. Having been 
the center of a valuable fishery from the earliest advent of 
Europeans, possessing a very good harbor, and being readily 
accessible from the sea, it was early mapped by French mission- 
aries and geographers, notably by Denys, 1672, Jumeau, 1685, 
Franquelin-deMeulles, 1686, an unknown surveyor of 1755 ? an ^ 
others, followed more or less accurately by the general maps of 
