BULLETIN OF THE NATURAL HISTORY SOCIETY. 
Indian family which formerly possessed, i. e., lived or hunted, 
upon it. It has never been surveyed, and our present maps 
are pieced together from various sketches made in connection 
with timber line surveys. It has not been studied by geolo- 
gists, though Chalmers has a mention of a remarkable gravel 
ridge on the south side {Report of the Geological Survey of 
Canada, 1895, 8G M) which he also shows, with some few other 
facts about the lowermost part, upon his Surface Geology 
map. It has been settled for a short distance up its course 
by settlers expanding from the Miramichi, mostly Irish, but 
with some Scotch and a few English, although, as in the case 
of all other rivers in this region, the settlement is contracting.* 
Above the old farms it is one unbroken forest, which has fur- 
nished immense quantities of lumber. Indeed the river is 
locally noted for the very rapid re-growth of lumber upon it, 
and it has never been badly burnt. It is rather a poor stream 
for fish, the dam at Blackville interposing an effective barrier 
to the ascent of salmon, while trout are only moderately plenty; 
nor has it any special reputation for game. Hardly any liter- 
ature of any kind in connection with it appears to exist. t 
Bartholomew River, as the map will show, has two sources 
in branches of nearly equal size. The North Branch I have 
seen only at its mouth, but it is said to run in a flat country, 
and to have two or three large deadwaters, one almost large 
enough to be called a lake, upon it. The South Branch rises 
in a little lake, which I have seen, a typical shallow lake of 
the flat country, with a low ridge on the south and extensive 
bog on the north. + Thence a small stream runs for a mile 
or two down to a large deadwater, in an open flat country. 
This deadwater, which is about a mile in length, is partially 
formed by a large dam, and is sometimes called “The Lake,” 
*A good deal of information about these settlers, which I expect later to publish in 
another connection, along with other information about the river, has been given me by the 
very obliging postmaster of Bartholomew, Mr. Stephen McCarthy. 
tl have noted only a single reference to the river in sporting literature — an article describ- 
ing a hunting trip to its headwaters in Forest and Stream, Sept. 21, 1907, 455. 
JThis is obviously the lake meant by Cooney {Op. cit., 121) when he says “The Bartholomew 
emerges from a beautiful lake near Porter’s Brook.’’ Its remoteness at that day had evi- 
dently operated to magnify its charms. 
