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BULLETIN OF THE NATURAL HISTORY SOCIETY. 
In 1910 the Oromocto River and French Lake were visited. 
A number of Indian camping places were found. The most 
important was situated on the high ground on the north-east 
side of French Lake. A large number of stone implements have 
been found here, and when the ground is newly ploughed the 
wigwam sites may be traced by the burned earth, ashes and 
decayed animal matter which has blackened the earth. The 
pictograph, photographed and described by Prof. Ganong, was 
examined. We were not able to find much here, a very fine 
arrowhead, and a stone ornament being the most interesting. 
Messrs. Merrit C. Smith, C. C. Smith, J. A. Smith and Vance 
E. Smith gave a number of good specimens and showed the 
party much kindness. 
In the village of Oromocto all traces of the large Indian 
encampment which once existed here has entirely disappeared. 
The village probably covers the original site. 
Near the centre of the village we were shown the place where 
a number of Indian graves were found. After leaving Oromocto 
we paddled to Lower Maugerville and portaged to the Portobello 
stream, down which we paddled our birch canoe, as so many 
thousands of our Indian predecessors have done in by gone 
years. This region from the headwaters of the Portobello to 
the mouth of the Jemseg was probably one of the most important 
aboriginal hunting and fishing places in New Brunswick. Al- 
most all of this area is a great alluvial flat probably once the 
bed of an immense inland lake of which French, Maquapit, 
Grand, Washedemoak Lakes and Bellisle Bay are remnants. 
The first three named are connected by narrow, deep channels 
locally known as thoroughfares. The waters of these lakes 
finds an outlet through the Jemseg, which drains even at low 
stages of the river an area of fourteen hundred square miles. 
Thousands of acres of this land are submerged in the spring 
freshets or floods. It is a common thing for a farnier to obtain 
a crop of fish and a crop of vegetables from the same piece of 
ground each year. Even today these channels or thoroughfares 
swarm with fish, and the swamps and lakes abound with wild 
fowl. Although the writer has visited the Portobello many time 
