NATURAL HISTORY AND PHYSIOGRAPHY OF NEW BRUNSWICK. 525 
it turns to the east, and forms an attractive tidal river, winding 
slightly between well-cultivated, gently-rising banks of consider- 
able elevation, and offering reaches, points and slopes of marked 
beauty. Indeed this part of the Pokemouche is the most pleasing 
of any portion of any of the North Shore Rivers, and it will com- 
pare well with many a place possessing a far greater scenic repu- 
tation. Eastward, the country falls off, and the well-settled, 
attractive South River enters. The shores of this branch are 
very low, rising by the gentlest swells from the water, and in 
places the dead forest trees still standing with their roots im- 
mersed by the highest tides afford striking evidence of the rapid 
subsidence this coast is undergoing. The South River was no 
doubt originally the outlet of the main stream, which now, how- 
ever, swings abruptly to the north, cuts through a ridge as a 
steep-walled and comparatively new (possibly glacial) valley 
and enters an older valley which evidently headed originally in 
the Waugh. It then swings eastward as a pleasantly settled 
estuary, with ever-lowering shores, and fianally reaches the sea 
through a characteristic sand-barred, low-shored, marshy shallow 
lagoon. 
The Saint Simon above the tide is an insignificant brook, 
lying, however, in a considerable ripe valley. Its upper tidal 
part winds about greatly amidst bordering salt marshes as a 
narrow muddy tidal stream of swift current. It is almost a 
miniature of the rivers at the head of the Bay of Fundy, and is 
the only stream of this character known to me upon the North 
Shore. It swings south and east through a fine deep inlet, with 
rolling and well-cultivated banks on the south, and receives the 
low-shored South Inlet, which is separated from Pokemouche 
only by a peat bog. Then it merges with Shippegan Harbor. 
The origin of these two rivers is given, I believe with approxi- 
mate correctness, in two preceding notes. The upper Poke- 
mouche and main Saint Simon lie in one ancient valley (the 
Pokemouchian, of Note 93), though I now think it likely its 
course was through Little Lamec, across the bogs of Shippegan, 
and out through Miscou Gitly, instead of as described in that 
note. On the other hand, the tidal valleys at right angles to this, 
including the South River of Pokemouche, the Lower Poke- 
