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residents of Washademoak and Salmon River, although it 
seems to have escaped mention entirely in any records or 
upon any maps. It could not, of course, have had great 
importance, since the streams it connected were no part of 
any through route of travel. It was doubtless, however, 
a prominent hunters’ portage, one of those used by the Mali- 
seets of the Saint John in their search for game or their 
pleasurable wanderings along our fine watercourses. We 
can well believe that a round journey from the Saint John 
through Grand Lake, thence along Salmon River, up Lake 
Stream, across by the portage to North Fork and down that 
stream and the Washademoak to the Saint John again, with 
a lingering break in the journey at the charming campground 
beside the great spring at the Upper Lake (page 6 earlier) 
formed a favourite round trip in aboriginal days; and it is one 
which our own vigorous youth might repeat to their pleasure 
and profit in times of good water. In full belief that the 
