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road of less than a mile length, (compare the map later at 
page 14 of this Bulletin) ; and hence are about 350 feet 
above the sea. The Upper Lake is decidedly pretty, despite 
the shallow-marshy aspect — - which it shares with most 
others of the little lakes of the Eastern Plain. The wooded 
shores present many attractive upland banks fringed with 
pretty white birches. One feature, however, is of special 
interest. On the western side of the lake is a piece of 
partly cleared upland, containing well-built sporting camps; 
and in the fringe of pretty woods left between field and shore 
is a remarkable cold spring, one of the most attractive, 
perhaps the most attractive, of all the beautiful springs I 
have seen in New Brunswick. It wells up in a rocky pool 
against a ledge bank overhung by thrifty young birches, 
and pours out in a crystalline stream through a channel all 
bordered by the crispest green cress. This is the reputed 
“poison spring” of earlier mention in these notes, (No. 79, 
page 238, and 126, page 440) though I consider its good character 
now completely established.* Fifty yards to the eastward, 
on the shore, is another running spring, likewise good, but in 
all ways inferior to this. The beauty of the spring and the 
excellence and attractiveness of the immediate neighborhood 
as a camp ground, must have made this place a favorite resort 
of the Indian hunters from time immemorial. They had a 
portage from the North Fork of Canaan to this lake, as will 
be shown later in these notes, page 31 of this Bulletin. 
The Upper Lake empties by a narrow winding deep 
thoroughfare, of a mile in length, running slowly through 
meadow swamp and bog into the Lower Lake, — - a rather 
inhospitable sheet of water lying against a ridge on the east. 
The outlet is a brook, easily navigable at fair water; it runs 
first in good woods, but soon enters an extensive alder swamp, 
now deeply flooded by extensive beaver works, and obviously 
filling a third large lake basin. Through this basin the sluggish 
* In the last-mentioned Note, I expressed the view that the cause of the death of great 
numbers of fish in small shoal lakes in some winters is deficiency of oxygen. I find that this 
view is confirmed, with exact account of details, in an article by H. Heyking, in Deutsche 
Landwirlschaflliche Presse, XL, Jan. 9, 1912. 
