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Richibucto), a lumber road turns off at right angles, and runs 
down to the river under the name of the Indian Portage Road. 
It bears that name, I think, not because it follows the Indian 
Portage, but because it leads to the end of the portage at the 
river; for not only is this road much out of the way of the direct 
course of the old path, but it runs mostly in low swampy land, 
which is avoided by the shorter and direct route across the 
angle between the two roads, in which direction, I have no 
doubt, the actual path ran. 
We turn now to the Richibucto end of the portage, which 
is also mapped herewith. Layton’s map, Mr. Hutchison’s 
and Mr. Welch’s testimony, and geographical considerations, 
all agree that the portage reached the river in the angle where 
