NATURAL HISTORY AND PHYSIOGRAPHY OP NEW BRUNSWICK. 231 
remarkable hills already mentioned, all of those near the river 
being burnt completely bare. They have been hitherto unnamed, 
and I have given some of them names for reasons stated in Note 
77. Among them one stands out with especial prominence, the 
one I named in 1898 Mount Cartier, and known to the guides and 
others as Little Bald. It has a bald, squarish top, almost like a 
“ table-mountain,” which, with its superiority in height over all 
others in its vioinity, makes it conspicuous from every direction, 
and causes it to seem to stand up higher than it really does.* The 
view from its summit is certainly one of the best in the Province, 
for it embraces all of the principal mountains of north central 
New Brunswick, and a wonderful expanse of typical north- 
ern wilderness, with boundless forests, interspersed here and there 
with anciently burnt barrens, which, with their occasional oases 
of vegetation, curiously simulate cultivated, and even park-like, 
landscapes. 
Section 2. From Cartier [Little Bald) Mountain to near 
Glory Hole Brook. — Below Cartier the river swings to the south 
and later to the southeast, and down to the entrance of the South or 
Spruce Lake Branch it continues an ideal canoe stream, winding 
swiftly, but mostly smoothly, over gravel and amid alders and 
woods in a deep valley amid fine hills. In this part of the river 
are some beautiful pools filled with small salmon, which spawn 
here. At the entrance of the Spruce Lake Branch (much smaller 
than the main river) , which enters in a large open basin, the char- 
acter of the river begins to change, and it becomes broader and 
shoaler, and flows more swiftly over small cobbles and with some 
boulders. The valley also is now not so deep, and the hills, all 
heavily forested, begin to assume the flat-topped and continuous 
-character distinctive of plateau or peneplain country. These 
characters become more and more marked in descending, the 
valleys become broader and riper, the hills lower and more plateau- 
like, and the river bed broader, shoaler, and with more drop. 
Finally after passing the bend above Glory Hole Brook the first 
ledges extending clear across the river are met with, and a new 
section of the river is reached. 
The physiographic history of this part of the river seems 
* It is not much, if any, over 2,200 feet. Compare Note 76. 
