natural history and physiography of new Brunswick 
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here is granite in great 'angular blocks piled up like masonry, and 
the little gorge appears to be not at all of erosion, but of rift, 
origin. The course of this stream on the map is also from Mr. 
Braithwaite’s sketch. Skunk Lake, 1637 feet above sea level, is a 
shallow, largely bog-bordered lake lying in a valley formed be- 
tween Wilkinson Mountain* and the Wheeler Mountain mass or 
plateau east of it, the same in which Hough Lake also lies and 
which is followed by the trail between the two lakes. It empties 
northeastward, but I have not seen its outlet. The fourth stream 
is that near the head of which lies Malone Pond, a most charming 
and typical little woods lake, whose outlet we followed all the way 
to Cave Brook and the main North Pole Branch. It leaves 
Malone Pond as a small stream, soon swinging to the east and 
the south east, rapidly increasing by the accession of many spring 
rivulets, and begins at once to develop little gulches or gorges 
in the granite rocks similar to those already described for Devils 
Gulch. Continuing southeastward it receives the Skunk Lake 
branch, and, still rapidly enlarging, developes larger gorges with 
much fall, separated by quiet alder-bordered sand-bottomed still- 
waters, often showing, as do the gorges themselves, abundant 
new beaver works. The stream then swings to the east in the 
vicinity of a fine great rounded hardwood mountain. Sable Moun- 
tain, and then to the northeast, keeping its general character 
though ever enlarging. The aspect of all the gorges gives the 
impression not of water-eroded channels so much as rifts in the 
regularly- jointed and bedded granite. At one place, where Hoyt’s 
timber-line crosses Cave Brook, the stream bed lies in the bottom 
of a little gorge with vertical granite walls fifteen or twenty feet 
high. One side of this gorge is angularly concave while the 
other is an island the angles of which appear to fit into the con- 
cave side, showing that here at least the valley is a rift, though 
the stream has worn also little caves into the joints of the granite 
thus giving this stream its name. Below, the valley gradually opens 
somewhat and the gulches become infrequent ; the stream is 
gentler and comes to flow mostly in a winding alder-bordered 
course through sand-bottomed still-waters. As it swings to the 
east it receives the shallow clear swift-flowing Devils Gulch 
