ARTICLE II. 
NOTES ON THE NATURAL HISTORY AND PHYSIO- 
GRAPHY OF NEW BRUNSWICK. 
By W. F. Ganong. 
120. — On the Physical Geography of Bartholomew River 
Read by Title May 2, 1911. 
{The map to accompany this note will he included with one of 
the Dungarvon River in the next Bulletin.) 
Of the several great branches which run parallel with the 
Main Southwest Miramichi in the carboniferous country, the 
one which lies nearest on the north, and is the smallest, is 
Bartholomew River. In July last I descended it in a canoe 
from near its source in the South Branch to its mouth, making 
observations upon its physical geography with results which 
follow.* 
The development of our knowledge of the river can be 
briefly traced. Its very first appearance of any kind in records, 
so far as I can discover, is in 1809, when it is mentioned in its 
present form in one of the Land Memorials preserved at 
Fredericton. It is shown for the first time on a map upon 
Bonnor’s Map of New Brunswick of 1820. Its name is de- 
rived without doubt, as Cooneyt has told us, from that of an 
*I was accompanied by my friend Mr. S. A. R. MacDonald, of Fredericton. W'e went 
in by the portage road, via Pleasant Ridge, though we afterwards found that it would have 
been much better to go by way of Ludlow. Though the water was fairly high we had to 
drag the canoe a good deal on the upper waters, but found the lower parts easy and pleasant 
canoeing. 
tin his History of Northern New Brunswick and Gaspe, 1832, page 24. The local pro- 
nunciation is like Bartholomee or Bartholemees. The local nomenclature of the river is of 
simple and mostly obvious origin. An exception is the word Mohang, applied to the deep 
pool on McCaskill Brook just above its junction with the Bartholomew, a word which is said 
to be of Indian origin. Though named Bartholomews on most maps, locally the river is 
mostly called Bartholomew. 
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