NATURAL HISTORY AND PHYSIOGRAPHY OF NEW BRUNSWICK. 227 
home in Northampton, Mass., and of the happy time we had there ; 
Dashzvood, for the man who first published an account of this 
region; Venning, for Mr. W. H. Venning of Sussex, a veteran 
sportsman, wdio as a young man fished on the Northwest and has 
seen much service for the province; Bill Gray, for Mr. Ells’ guide 
in these parts. 
The names of various places supplied to me by Mr. 
Pringle: Middle, Caribou, Crooked, Canoe, Portage, Spruce, Big, 
are obviously descriptive, while Riordans, Nash, Slacks, Bemis, 
Colonels and the camps Goodwin and Waite, are for sports- 
men who have visited them on hunting expeditions in recent 
years. The latter names represent a new and not especially wel- 
come element now being introduced into New Brunswick place- 
nomenclature. Each year the guides push farther into the wilder- 
ness in search of new hunting grounds and the sportsman, nearly 
always an American, who happens to be with them when the first 
moose or caribou is killed, has his name attached to that lake or 
hill, and these names will undoubtedly persist. Indeed one or two 
such names have already been applied by one guide at least to 
some of the places I have re-named. These names, however, are * 
not yet fixed and are used only by one guide, I believe, and, more- 
over, as I have since found, some of the places are known to lum- 
bermen by entirely different names. I think it quite proper under 
these circumstances to re-name them, although, as a rule, I prefer 
to adopt on my maps the names in local use. Batemans is a lum- 
berman’s name. Kezvadu is said to be an Indian name, Micmac 
for Indian devil. 
78. — On the PhysiogRxAphy of the Basin of the Northwest 
Miramichi. 
Read January 5, 1904. 
One of the least known, though in many ways one of the most 
interesting, of our rivers is the Northwest Miramichi. In early 
September last, in company with Professor A. H. Pierce, I de- 
scended it in a canoe from its extreme source to its mouth, and 
made the observations which, with some related matters, here 
follow. 
We first note the development of our knowledge of the river. 
Its lower course appears imperfectly and without name on French 
maps by Jumeau in 1685, and by Franquelin-deMeulles in 1686; 
it is first given the name M inaqua (the Micmac M ool-mun-ak-un, 
still used) on a French map of, 1754, which name was followed on 
