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since the ends of portages were very usual camp or village 
sites. Now this tradition as to the relation of Indian path 
to modem road is supported, so far as the Canaan end of 
the portage is concerned, by two other items of good 
evidence. First, though our maps of this part of the Canaan 
are still very imperfect, it seems clear that this place, if not 
the nearest turn of the Canaan to the Petitcodiac, is at least 
practically as near to it as any other part of the river, while 
considerably farther to the westward, the direction of most 
travel. The plans in the Crown Land Office show that the 
Geological Survey map is incorrect in placing the Prices-Nevers 
Brook basin markedly nearer to the Petitcodiac than is this 
turn; the topography is given correctly upon Wilkinson’s 
Map and upon that given earlier in this Note. Second, there 
exists in the Crown Land Office at Fredericton an early plan, 
of 1S09, reproduced in the Transactions XII, above cited, which 
shows a ‘‘Bias’d Path leading to River Petitcodiack, this 
path actual survey.” Now this path starts on that map from 
the Canaan near the middle of a lot registered to John Keith, 
which lot is known to cover exactly the place where Dr. 
Thorne affirms the Indian portage started. It is true the fnap 
does not say that this ‘‘bias’d path” is the Indian portage, 
but it is wholly improbable that, with a well marked and 
long used Indian portage path somewhere near by, a brand 
new path would have been blazed through this broad tract 
of wilderness. 
Taking all of the evidence together, therefore, it seems to 
harmonize completely in pointing to the situation given by 
Dr. Thorne as the end of the portage. Accordingly during 
our descent of the river in 1912 I made a study of the place, 
with a survey thereof and of the surroundings ; and this map 
is presented herewith. Since the path started in the John 
Keith lot it was necessary first to locate the lines of that lot, 
and this, as shown on the map, I was able to do with the 
aid of residents at the settlement on the north side of the 
river. After the river passes under the bridge shown at the 
right of the map, it runs past a piece of irregular low cleared 
intervale, separated by a muddy bogan and swampy swale 
from a wooded bluff. Beyond the bluff comes a high inter- 
vale or low terrace, now wooded with young growth but 
evidently once cleared; and this terrace merges gradually 
to the westward into a fine high intervale recently cleared in 
part, while beyond it passes into one of the beautiful open 
well farmed intervales characteristic of this region, as mention- 
