NATURAL HISTORY AND PHYSIOGRAPHY OF NEW BRUNSWICK. i 
stream winds greatly in a channel so narrow and obstructed 
by alders as to prove a sore trial to the canoeman : but 
after some two or three miles it opens out in wide pleasant 
meadows, falls over a series of five new beaver dams, and 
then comes once more to upland. Then it runs quietly 
for a long distance northeastward, in another flat wooded 
country, winding greatly, even around to the southeast and 
south, as a very dark Stillwater stream, mostly with meadowy 
banks, but sometimes in small rips over gravel and sandstones, 
with banks and rare low cliffs of the same. Thus it continues 
constantly growing in size, and receiving several branches, 
down to a large meadowy brook, the Fork Stream or South 
Branch, which is said to run up parallel with Salmon River 
and head near the latter as shown by our map. 
At this Fork the stream swings north and northwest, and 
finally around to the west, growing larger in a country of muck 
higher wooded banks, but always displaying long stillwaters 
separated by occasional stony rips, making it a most attractive 
stream for the canoeman; and thus it continues down to 
Stony Brook, — a fine clear stream with good fishing pools 
just below its mouth. 
Below Stony Brook the stream enlarges a good deal, in 
a higher country, and exhibits many fine long winding still- 
waters in most attractive intervales, with good reaches in higher 
wooded country, separated by some shoal stony rips showing 
occasional ledges. Thus it is to Coy Brook, a large wide 
shallow swift stream; then follow more stillwaters with more 
stony rips, at the chief of which the stream turns and empties 
by a wide mouth into the quiet waters of Salmon River. 
As a whole the stream leaves the impression of a singular 
uniformity of character, its dark water moving slowly through 
long stillwaters broken by regularly-recurring stony rips, in 
a low country of meadowy banks occasionally giving place 
to sandstones in steep banks or rare low cliffs. It is a fine 
stream for the canoeist, at least in the fair water we had. 
We turn now to the probable physiographic origin of 
Lake Stream. Here, as for so much of the Eastern Plain 
