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Moreover, he not only has answered all of my many questions 
most fully and courteously, but even took the trouble to drive 
over from Harcourt, by appointment, and devoted a day to 
showing me all of the places of interest in this connection, and 
giving me the benefit of all his accurate knowledge about them. 
I could not have been more fortunate, and I wish here to express 
to Mr. Hutchison my warm appreciation of his kindness, and 
my sincerest thanks therefor. 
The portage is marked upon Layton’s map of 1836, which 
shows that it left Salmon River below the Oxbow, at the nearest 
turn to the Richibucto, as shown on our general map. Its 
position is approximately fixed by the placename Indian Portage 
Brook applied locally to a little stream marked (for the first 
time) on the accompanying maps. The brook itself is a little, 
sand-bottomed, sluggishly- winding, stream, with a wide grassy 
outlet cut through a soft low terrace lying some eight feet above 
Salmon River. This terrace extends down along the river, 
and is covered with second growth small woods, in the midst 
of which is a very pleasant modern camp ground used by sports- 
men and lumbermen, whence a good path leads down to an 
excellent landing on the shore. Farther westward is a little 
rivulet, which, when followed back to the road, is found to run 
through an aldery swale, coming out from a swamp to the north- 
ward. Across this rivulet is a bridge, which is a strategic point 
in our investigation, for just west of it the land rises in a gentle 
slope, on the crest of which, a dozen paces from the bridge, the 
portage path formerly crossed the line of the present road, as 
Mr. Hutchison well remembers, although no trace thereof can 
now be seen in the dense young growth of the woods. If, further- 
more, one follows the general direction the path must have 
taken towards the river, he passes through dense second growth 
woods, and comes out on a continuation of the same terrace 
already mentioned, still some eight feet above the river. Mr. 
Hutchison does not remember exactly where the path reached 
the river, but just at this place the bank presents a fairly easy 
slope from the terrace to the river, with a kind of middle level 
leading down to a stony beach, just above a stony point which 
affords an excellent landing for canoes. The place, indeed, 
offers the best landing for a considerable distance up or down; 
it is the place to which the known part of the path points; and 
it is the precise place where the river bends farthest up towards 
the Richibucto. All evidence, accordingly, combines to designate 
this as the place of starting of the old portage path. Of course 
the bank has changed with time, and with lumbering operations; 
