NATURAL HISTORY AND PHYSIOGRAPHY OF NEW BRUNSWICK. 437 
usual jointed gray sandstones of that formation, while its physio- 
graphy may be expected to harmonize with that of the other 
rivers in the same region. The river is said to rise in a large 
spring in the approximate position shown by the accompanying 
map, whence it flows northward without striking features, as 
Mr. Leonard Smith tells me, and hence doubtless winding in 
the usual open gently-undulating country characteristic of the 
surface of the Carboniferous plateau. It passes here and there 
through meadows, and once through some abrupt rocky turns 
(Cherry Turns), down to the Horton Branch, when it turns 
abruptly eastward. A mile or two lower it receives the South 
Forks, a stream of much the same character, which passes so 
close to the Coal Branch Lake of Richibucto that tradition 
says it was once planned to drain the lake for temporary lumber- 
ing purposes into Salmon River. The united stream flows 
northeastward to Hazen Jam Brook, (whence I have seen it to 
the mouth), displaying above this brook, as far as Horton Brook, 
much the same character as below, according to Mr. Smith. 
At Hazen Jam Brook it is two canoe lengths broad, and, down- 
ward, its very dark water slips quietly along through lengthened 
stillwaters broken by occasional short rips, all perfectly smooth 
except for an occasional boulder of sandstone. The banks are 
everywhere low, mostly with a border of meadow or alders, 
backed by birches and poplars, though here and there small 
groves £>f princes pine appear on low sandy terraces. And the 
country is everywhere open and flat, without perceptible plateau 
or valley walls. It forms a canoe stream of the easiest character 
at fair water, and one rather pretty though somewhat monoton- 
ously so. 
As the map will show, this part of Salmon River lines up 
very perfectly with the upper part of Lake Stream, two small 
brooks, indeed, partially filling the gap, while in the other direc- 
tion it lines up accurately with the head of Trout Brook, of 
which the wide open trough valley extends right through to 
Salmon River, as I have seen for myself from the roads. Accord- 
ingly, there is no question, I believe, that these three streams 
all occupy one ancient valley, now separated into three parts^ 
