NATURAL HISTORY AND PHYSIOGRAPHY OF NEW BRUNSWICK. 333 
123. — On the Physiographic Characteristics of the 
Renous Lakes. 
Read by Title. May 2nd, 1911. ' 
The lakes of New Brunswick fall rather naturally into 
somewhat definite groups determined, of course, by physio- 
graphic causes. Most of the groups I have studied, and last 
summer in August, I was able to visit and observe another, 
to the investigation of which I had long looked forward as 
likely to yield information of unusual interest. This is the 
group of some twenty lakes, lying in a remote wilderness country 
at the head of the two South Branches of the Renous River.* 
These lakes make no early appearance in records, as is to 
be expected from their remoteness and difficulty of access. 
Long Lake was crossed by a timber line of Jouett’s in 1837, 
while Berton Lake and those below it appeared for the first 
t’me, though without names, on Berton’s survey plan of the 
Renous River in 1838. Later surveys, by Jack, Fish and others, 
added sketches of several other lakes, as their plans, preserved 
in the Crown Land Office, show; and of course all of their data 
are incorporated into the accompanying map, with, however, 
some corrections as well as additions. No naturalist or geologist 
has heretofore visited the group, (the coloring on the Geological 
map having been added simply from estimation), nor have 
I been able to find any other references in print to the group’ 
aside from a brief mention in one of my own earlier notes (No. 
Bulletin, No. XXIII, 316, 318), a brief reference by Dashwood, 
who visited them in 1863 {Chiploquorgan, 110), and the very 
interesting story by Risteen mentioned in a footnote below. 
The country has yielded a good deal of lumber, and now is 
visited each autumn by sportsmen in pursuit of moose, which 
are abundant, as are beaver and other game animals. 
*I was accompanied only by my friend Professor A. H. Pierce. We went on foot, carrying 
our own supplies from our camp below Upper Falls of the Dungarvon (see a Note on this 
River in the next Bulletin), to Berton Lake, whence we made three trips to the other lakes. 
The expedition took in all about nine days. 
In preparing this paper, and the accompanying map, I have had much valued help from 
Mr. Henry Braithwaite, the well known leader of all New Brunswick guides, who trapped 
and surveyed in the region of the lakes in the seventies, and from Mr. Hiram Mandeville, 
of Derby, N. B., who guides sportsmen to the lakes on the Little South Branch. 
