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seen from Bald Alountain, seems to slope and empty not north- 
ward, but southward. So marked is this appearance that, in 
1882, as a plan in the Crown Land Office shows, it seems to have 
deceived the surveyor Freeze into believing that it did actually 
flow south, and formed the head of the Northwest ^Miramichi. 
This all suggests that morphologically this was a southward flow- 
ing valley heading near the Notch, and possibly this may be the 
case. But I was entirely unable to detect any considerable notch 
to the southward, through which it may have flowed, though 
possibly such might exist. It seems to me much more probable 
that this is a basin of erosion of softer rocks, in which connection 
it is interesting to note that the granite of Bald ^Mountain appears 
to be very soft, for it has weathered rem.arkably around the bare 
bosses on the summit.* 
The second curious relation of this valley to others consists in 
the existence of a very remarkable valley extending from the First 
Forks northwest towards the southern extremity of iMount iMarie 
(and for this distance occupied by ]\Iinto Stream), whence it 
swings somewhat more to the west and extends as a very distinct 
valley, clearly visible from the summit of iNIount Elizabeth, all the 
way to Sagamook and Bernardin, between which it seems to pass. 
The presence of this remarkable valley is one of the most striking 
features in the view from Elizabeth ^Mountain. I have not my- 
self traced this valley except from the mountain, but I recall two 
other references to it. In 1863 Professor Bailey, in examining 
Feldspar iMountain, came upon what he describes as a great 
chasm to the southward of it. Again in a manuscript map kindly 
sent me by 'Sir. J. W. Hoyt, showing his timber-surveys in that 
region, there is marked just south of and parallel with the Nepisi- 
guit east of Little South Branch a “ deep dry ravine.” Apparent- 
ly, then, we are here concerned with a single old valley running 
from the present head of the South Branch through by way of 
this valley to the mouth of the Little South Branch, including 
here, perhaps, a little of the Nepisiguit valley, and thence by 
the valley between Teneriffe and Cooney, by the Nepisiguit lakes, 
* Not only on this mountain, but on Chiefs and Historians Plateaus as well, there are 
remarkable “ pot holes,” a foot or two in diameter and up to a foot deep, evidently the 
result of aerial erosion, perhaps aided by fire eifects. 
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