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BULLETIN OP THE NATURAL HISTORY SOCIETY. 
for here are seen those irregular hills carved from the original 
peneplain by the numerous streams about the sources of the 
Xepisiguit and Tobique. To the north one sees the great open 
valley of the South Branch narrowing to its notch in the north- 
ward, and east of that the great wooded dome (higher than 
Kagoot) which connects this mountain with Raymond and the 
neighboring mountains to the northward, all of them together 
forming a single great plateau. To the northeast are the broken 
hills of the source of the XTrthwest, and nearer lie the two lakes. 
Spruce and Kewadu, apparently in ancient north and south de- 
pressions. Immediately to the southward extends an outlier of 
this mountain (Middle Mountain) also bald, and beyond that, 
across the stream, is another bald summit (Caribou Mountain) 
some 220 feet lower than Bald. 
The summit of Bald Mountain is of granite, which has 
weathered into several curious boulder-like masses, of which two 
are very prominent on the summit. Its slopes are covered with 
a close growth of heath bushes and lichens, mostly very easy to 
travel over, and intersected everywhere by caribou trails.* Imme- 
diately south of the mountain, in the valley of the South Branch, 
occurs one of the most interesting and attractive associations of 
vegetation I have seen anywhere in New Brunswick. Very 
symmetrical, completely cone-shaped black spruces grow scatter- 
ed in a park-like fashion over a close vari-colored carpet of 
reindeer moss, dwarf blueberries, mayflowers, and other 
small heaths, while the park-like aspect is increased by the numer- 
ous caribou paths winding here and there among the trees. 
Northward of Bald Mountain to beyond the Notch all of the 
mountains are heavily forested, but about the Second Forks the 
open burnt country begins and continues to the Nepisiguit. This 
country, very probably the most extensive open tract in the Pro- 
vince, must have been burnt a long time ago, for all traces of fire, 
except the bareness, have vanished. The country is very slowly 
reforesting itself, forming first the usual barren vegetation of 
lichens and heaths, and upon the turf thus formed there comes in 
* On the s-lopes of tliese mountains, and also on the open plateaus, occurs an abund- 
ance. of the Dwarf Birch, Bettila glandiilosa, a plant which appears not to have been 
reported hitherto from the Province. 
