NATURAL HISTORY AND PHYSIOGRAPHY OF NEW BRUNSWICK. 5 
it is exposed to the full force of the storms of Northumberland 
Strait. It contains two wells and some foundations (those 
of a former lobster factory, I have been told), which afford 
a fixed basis for measurement, and being too small to be of 
any further economic use, is likely to remain for the future 
undisturbed. Accordingly I made a survey of this island, 
accurate to a very few inches, and the map is presented 
herewith, for precisely the same use as that of Indian Island. 
I tried in vain to find another island or point, containing 
fixed marks and composed of gravel, but exposed to the sea. 
For completeness of the subject, I would refer again to 
the map accompanying Note No. 119, and call attention to 
the fact that about four years ago the late Professor Pen- 
hallow established mark posts on Dochet Island in the Saint 
Croix River for exactly this same purpose. The results will 
no doubt be recorded in due time by the Biological Station 
at Saint Andrews. 
129. — The Physiographic Characteristics of Lake Stream, 
Queens-Kent. 
In my earlier Note upon Salmon River (No. 126, page 
440), I gave some account of Lake Stream, the largest branch 
of that river on the south ; but this was wholly from report 
of others, since I had not then examined it myself. In 
August last, however, I descended it in a canoe from its 
source and made the observations which follow.* 
Lake Stream flows wholly in the soft sandstone of the 
Eastern Plain. The source is formed by two lakes in Queens 
County, as shown by the map. They lie a little higher than 
the railway, with which they are connected by a good portage 
*1 was accompanied by my friend Mr. Leonard Smith of Orangeville, Kent County. 
We took our canoe and outfit from Chipman along the newly-opened Transcontinental 
Railway, and portaged in to the Upper Lake. After our descent of the Stream and 
Salmon River to Chipman, we went out by the railway again and descended Coal Creek, 
and returned by Grand Lake and Salmon River once more to Chipman. Then we took 
the railway a third time to the crossing of the North Fork Canaan, which fine stream we 
also descended. 
In connection with this note I have had much information from two men who know 
the stream well, Mr. Wilson Jonah, and Mr. Thos. MacEacheron, both of Chipman; and to 
them I wish here to tender my very best thanks. 
