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rent over drift in a flat country, at times almost smothered in 
alders, for some six miles. Then, for some two miles it is more 
rapid, its bed is rougher, with some ledges, nntil, eight miles from 
the lake, it ])limges into a typical, post-glacial gorge two miles in 
length, in which the water, by a series of falls and rocky rapids^ 
drops some 150 feet."*" In the gorge are two sets of beautiful 
falls, one near the head of the gorge, of some three or four ir- 
regular pitches, in all about forty feet, and another, a quarter of 
a mile lower down, also of some three or four pitches, an upper 
nearly vertical of twenty feet, and a lower, also vertical, of ten 
feet. The walls are here very steep and close together, and with 
their summit of forest present a wild and beautiful aspect. 
Altogether the gorge and falls deserve to rank among the finer 
of the Province, although, owing to the small size of the river, 
they are surpassed in magnitude by several others. The pre- 
glacial channel appears to have been on the west bank, perhaps 
into the present Ramsay Brook. 
The river issues from this gorge just above Ramsay Brook, 
but not as above into open country. On the contrary, it runs 
over a very rough bed in a deep, winding, narrow valley, cut 30a 
or 400 feet into a plateau country, to a mile or more below Meadow 
Brook, where the valley, at the place marked as Devonian on the 
Geological map, abruptly opens out. This part of the valley just 
described is much like parts of the Nepisiguit, the Little South- 
west and the Northwest Miramichi, though somiewhat less extreme 
in its characters, and without doubt the same explanation, what- 
ever it may be, applies to the origin of them all. 
After issuing from the deep valley a mile below Meadow 
Brook, the river, now rapidly increasing in size, winds about with 
a smoother current through a wider valley, and develops a con- 
siderable flood-plain, including many fine, though small, inter- 
vales. The hills, evidently the cut edge of a plateau, are back 
from the river and more rounded and less lofty than above, and • 
*Hind (Geological Report, 1865, 129') refers to the gorge and falls, and makes the river 
fall 420 feet, while Ells (Geological Report, 1879-80, 3 D) makes it 130 feet. I did not measure 
it, but think it must be greater than Ells makes it, because I made the lake 864 and Ramsay 
Brook 527 feet respectively above the sea, while the drop from the lake to the gorge is not 
very great. 
