NATURAL HISTORY AND PHYSIOGRAPHY OP NEW BRUNSWICK. 237 
The Rumbling Mountain and Burning Mountain of Tobique. 
In the former note (No. 57), I mentioned the statement made 
by residents on the Tobique that there is a spot on Blue Mountain 
which is much warmer than the surroundings ; and also that there 
exists on the Wapsky a mountain from which strange rumblings 
are heard. During the last summer I was told by one of the best 
guides on Tobique, in all sincerity, that the mountain with the 
warm spot and the rumbling mountain are one and the same, that 
it is on the Odell, eight miles up on the southwest side of the 
portage road, and that it is commonly known both as the “ Rumb- 
ling Mountain ” and the “ Burning Mountain.” 
The noise is heard only occasionally, and is said to resemble 
thunder, and persons new to the region are said to be much 
astonished when they heard what they take to be thunder from a 
clear sky. The ground is described as so warm that snow never 
lies long upon it. and leaves, etc., soon dry up. There is probably 
some exaggeration in these statements, but I believe they have 
some basis, which should be scientifically tested. 
Abnormal Magnetic Variations. 
Magnetic variation in New Brunswick is referred to in Note 
58, but no cases of abnormal variation are there mentioned. Mr. 
W. B. Hoyt, deputy surveyor, of Andover, writes me that, as a 
result of studies he has made upon old surveys by H. M. G. Gar- 
den, he has found a certain variation in a part of the survey of 
Green River, which, I am satisfied, ind’cates a small area of 
magnetic depression, and may be connected with an erratic move- 
ment on Green Mountain, which is founded, I think, probably on 
the existence of iron ore in that neighborhood.” 
Another and much more striking case is recorded upon Play- 
ford’s “ Plan of the Survey of the North Line of the New Bruns- 
wick and Nova Scotia Land Company Purchase,” 1833, (in the 
Crown Land Office), which, at a spot not far southwest of 
Miramichi Lake, has this legend : “ Find the magnet attracted 
from four to ten degrees.” 
