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report upon it, along with the remainder of the route, in a 
future Note describing the physiographic characteristics of 
the Buctouche River. 
Mr. Bernard tells me that the portage path ran eastward 
as shown on my map, and reached the Buctouche at a bank, 
some fifteen feet high, about four hundred yards below the 
present highway bridge, where the river swings sharply to the 
eastward. The place is now overgrown, though some modern 
camps are visible a little higher up stream. 
A point of interest, well-known locally, is the fact that 
about half way over, the path ran across the present farm of 
Mr. Albert Peters, and here, some fifty yards from the path, 
there was formerly an Indian grave with carved poplars 
at head and foot. Some years ago is was opened, in the 
belief that it might contain something of value; but nothing 
except bones was found. Not far away are some springs, 
at which it is supposed, there was some kind of camp ground. 
I found at Canaan Station that the portage is already 
confused in the minds of some residents with a certain “old 
road”; but this was a temporary affair along which stone 
was hauled from the Buctouche to the Canaan, in the general 
direction of the portage, for use in building the Railway; 
and the future student of the subject must not allow himself 
to think he has discovered something of importance which 
I had missed! 
While the Maliseet Indians of the River Saint John 
doubtless made use of this route at times, as indeed one of 
the references above cited shows, it is likely that it was 
chiefly a route of the North Shore Micmacs on their hunting 
trips into the interior. This, indeed, is confirmed by a 
statement of Mr. S. E. McDonald made to Mr. I. *T. Hether- 
ington, that in his father’s time the Micmacs of Prince Edward 
Island used to come regularly by this route to hunt on the 
Upper Canaan in autumn and winter, and that they had an 
important camp ground on the Millstream, the McDonalds 
Brook of our map. 
{ b ). — The Indian portage from the Washademoak to the 
Petitcodiac. 
This, though one of the longest, was one of the most 
important of all the early portage paths in New Brunswick, 
for it lay on the route of the old French and Indian line of 
travel between the Chignecto region and Quebec. For this 
reason it finds mention in records and on maps in the French 
period as recorded in the Transactions of the Royal Society 
