NATURAL HISTORY AND PHYSIOGRAPHY OF NEW BRUNSWICK. 335 
they were by the dams across their outlets; but they lie in a 
great deep valley separated by a lofty ridge from the Dun- 
garvon on the south. 
Burk Lake lies, at a lower level than the stream just west 
of it, in a broad open and ancient valley, with its upper end 
nestling into a niche in the great hardwood ridges which rise 
to the plateau on the north, and its lower end extending out 
into an open burnt cou^ntry, through which its outlet runs as 
shown by the map. Looking up from the shores of Fowler 
Lake one can follow this great valley, obviously the original 
morphological source of the South Branch Renous, and can see 
the great plateau across its head, rising into the more elevated 
cone-shaped Lighthouse Mountain. This valley extends 
morphologically right along the margin of Fowler Mountain, 
the country thence out to Fowler Lake being all flat. Below 
Fowler Lake the South Branch Renous is said to continue 
a very rough stream down to the Lower Falls, below which 
it is smooth and pleasant, and very easy for canoeing, down to 
the junction with the North Branch, whence to the mouth 
it has been described fully in these Notes (No. 85). 
We consider next the several lakes emptying into the Little 
South Branch of Renous, all of which lie spread out to view 
from the great bare granite summit of Jack’s Mountain. North- 
ward can be seen the great wooded plateau, in a niche of which 
lies Melville Lake, and into which are cut the valleys of the 
streams shown by our map.* 
* It will be of interest to record here such information as I have been able to glean, chiefly 
from Mr. Henry Braithwaite, but also from some others, concerning the origin of the nomen- 
clature of this region. Several of the names are, of course simply the obvious descriptive 
sort. Louis Lake, as all agree, was named for Louis Bear, a famous Maliseet Indian hunter, 
from whom Mr. Braithwaite learned his craft, who used to hunt here, as did the Tobique 
Indians as far back as 1825 and doubtless earlier, as Mr. Braithwaite tells me. It was for this 
same Louis Bear, I believe, that Louis Mountain and the Louis (pronounced Lewey) Rapids 
on the Miramichi above McKeel Brook were named. Berton was named for the surveyor 
who began his survey at its head in 1838, and the name should be thus spelled, and not Burton, 
as on some plans. Burk was named by Edward Jack, (who uses this spelling and not Burke), 
presumably for some lumberman, while Melville was named for Melville Jack, his brother, 
who did work for the lumbermen in this region. Fowler Lake was named for James Fowler, 
an early lumberman, and Kennedy Lake for John Kennedy who made timber there. This 
name, by the way, appears on Fish’s Plan, as Canada, doubtless because he misunderstood 
the name when told him, and it is shown on his plan in a very erroneous position and form. 
The Ottawa Branch was named, reason unknown, by Daniel McLaughlin who lumbered 
