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entire fall therefore must be somewhat under one hundred feet. 
Since, however. Hay’s Falls, below Woodstock, is probably 
more than eighty feet, it is necessary to include the part of the 
Miramiehi Fall not visible from below in order to make it the 
highest in the province. 
Its height is, however, not the only recommendation of this 
fall to our attention, for it is remarkably beautiful as well, es- 
pecially when seen at high water. It is not truly vertical, but 
runs in a symmetrical sheet down the very steep face of a great 
cliff, against the ledges of which it is dashed to the finest veil 
of fleecy lace, while all the surroundings are strikingly wild and 
fine. It is about fifteen miles above Boiestown, but very easily 
accessible from the Miramiehi by a path less than a quarter of 
a mile in length. 
110 . — On the Occurrence of the Wolf in New Brunswick. 
Read November 5* 1907. 
Conflicting statements are current as to the occurrence, 
past and present, of the Wolf in New Brunswick, and therefore 
it is desirable to bring together the available evidence upon 
the subject. The species in question is the Gray, alias Timber, 
Wolf, ( Canis occidentalism , the only one of Eastern North America. 
Evidence upon this subject may be derived from four sources, 
namely, — from contemporary accounts, from government records 
of bounties paid for their destruction, from the studies of 
naturalists upon the subject, and from the testimony of trappers 
and other woodsmen. 
First we consider the contemporary records. 
The earliest known mention of the wolf in connection with New Bruns- 
wick* is found in a list of furs exported from Saint John between 1764 and 
* Negative evidence has some value, and it is worth noting that the Wolf is not men- 
tioned by Lescarbot in his enumeration of the animals of Acadia in 1609, nor in any of 
the Jesuit Relations on Acadia, nor by Nicolas Denys in his Natural History of Acadia 
in 1672, nor by John Gyles in his account of the animals hunted by the Indians of the 
River Saint John in 1680-1690, nor by LeClercq in his account of the animals hunted 
by the Micmacs in 1691, nor by Diereville in his account of the animals of Acadia in 1713,. 
nor by any other writer of the French Period so far as I can find. Nor are they mentioned 
in connection with the settlement of the Loyalists so far as I can recall. 
