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surveys, however, simply located the intersection of the streams 
with the lines ; and no part of the Branch or its affluents have as 
yet been surveyed, but only sketched between the lines.* 
Turning to the printed records, these appear to be altogether 
absent. No scientific student is known to have visited it as yet, 
and, aside from my earlier Note, No. 99, f no mention of it occurs 
in any scientific publication known to me. The boundaries upon 
the Geological Map are simply sketched by inference from the 
structure of neighboring regions. Nor do the sportsmen who 
have hunted here for moose and caribou appear to have recorded 
their existences, and this is almost the only New Brunswick 
stream for which some such writings do not exist. It is perhaps 
needless to add that the valley is wholly unsettled, and the only 
traces of man consist in the few hunting and lumber camps and 
the associated portage roads and trails. 
The true source of this Branch is shown upon no printed map 
whatever, and although located correctly on Freeze's plan of 1881- 
82, it is wrongly attached to the stream entering the South 
Branch Nepisiguit just west of Kagoot, an error repeated in the 
general plans of the Crown Land Office. As shown by Freeze, 
followed on the accompanying map, it rises in two barrens high 
up on the central plateau in one of the wildest and most remote 
parts of New Brunswick, and flows eastward across his north 
timber line. From this point I have followed it downwards for 
some miles. It is at first a fine clear brook falling much in a V- 
shaped, heavily-wooded valley cut some 300 feet or more into the 
plateau. Downwards the fall increases, making the stream 
• Hence it would have been in better form to have dotted the streams on the 
accompanying map, but as all of them are in the same estate this seemed needless. 
The skeleton of the map is taken from the plans of the Crown Land Office, but for 
much additional information I am indebted to Mr. John Wambolt, the chief guide 
on the Branch, and to Mr. Alfred Sinclair, who has lumbered there for many years. 
Indirectly, also, I have much valued assistance from Mr. Samuel Russell, and from 
my friend. Dr. R. Nicholson, of Newcastle. 
fin my note on the North Pole Branch (Note 99) I ventured the surmise 
that the main stream above Forks Mountain would be found to wind quietly in a 
large basin. Nothing could be farther from the truth, as I found by my studies 
this summer. On the contrary, ascending above Forks Mountain, the stream 
becomes swifter and swifter, until it is a mountain torrent, pouring down in 
cascades and falls through a granite gorge from its sources on the surface of the 
plateau. Half way down it is joined by another stream which gathers all the 
waters coming from the westward. 
