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as it enters a more definite valley a little above the entrance of 
the stream from Kewadu Lake.* Below that it runs in a rather 
narrow and deepening valley, becoming a rocky stream of much 
fall, showing many cascades over ledges and even some approach 
to small gorges. Receiving some small streams it gradually be- 
comes quieter in a widening valley, and receives the North Fork 
in a very pleasant open alder and intervale basin. 
The North Fork rises in a group of attractive little wilderness 
game-haunted lakes, as shown upon the map. The stream, mostly 
dark and quiet, with deadwater reaches, flows eastward with a 
low ridge upon its southern and a plateau upon its northern side, 
and joins the much larger main stream, as shown upon the map. 
Below the junction the stream swings to the south and occupies 
a valley of some depth and maturity, with a drift floor of con- 
siderable width. Downward the valley becomes deeper and the 
stream swifter. There is then a gap in my knowledge of it 
(owing to our following a portage road) ; I saw it next on its 
easterly bend, and there the valley is very deep, winding and 
narrow, while the stream falls much over frequent ledges, which 
culminate in the fine vertical fall of some eight feet just above 
the Little North Branch. All this part seems newer than the 
parts above, indeed almost of “ interglacial ” character, and I 
believe the valley above must have had a former course across 
in an easterly direction to the Northwest, while this lower part 
is much newer. 
* The characters of the lakes I have seen are as follows: Kewadu (or Slacks) 
lies in a flat wooded country, has bog, marsh, boulder and sand shores, with a 
bouldery schist island on the west side joined by bog with the shore. Originally 
(very likely pre-glacially) it must have emptied southward instead of north, as 
now. The Moose-pond is a shallow moose-haunted boggy deadwater. Canoe is a 
pleasing lake, with rising wooded shores and grassy margin, while Riordan’s is a 
woods lake with stony shores. Neds Lake is a very attractive little woods lake 
with high shores, and Allan Pond is of similar character, but possessing a remark- 
able margin of firm grassy marsh. This same feature, which I have nowhere else 
seen so well developed, appears in Musquash Lake, while Big Lake, just above 
the latter, lying high up on the plateau, is a very pretty, beaver-haunted lak*% with 
finely forested rising shores. The winding grassy Deadwater on the North Fork 
is almost a lake, and lies against a high ridge on the north ; it is a c°ntre for 
immense numbers of moose, STid is, I think, the lake called Waubigut on the 
Geological Survey map. All of these lakes have been dammed of old by beaver, 
and they formed a great hunting ground for those animals. Traces of an old 
Indian hunting camp and a trail, supposed to have been made by Bill Gray, were 
found in the vicinity of Camp Waite by Mr. Pringle when he first began hunting 
in that country. 
