NATURAL HISTORY AND PHYSIOGRAPHY OF NEW BRUNSWICK; 89 
a clear little stream, it comes at right angles into the North 
Branch valley which I have seen thence to its mouth. The 
main valley at this point belongs obviously as much to Lindsay 
Brook as to the North Branch, rivulets of both streams coming: 
within twenty feet of one another in a boggy swamp, as I am 
told by Mr. D. F. Maxwell, who made the railroad surveys 
through here. This flat-bottomed continuous valley, of 1155 
feet elevation, is some 500 to 800 feet wide and lies between an 
abrupt lofty ridge (some 500 feet high) on the west and an 
elevated plateau country of equal height on the east. The valley 
as a whole can be seen with some clearness from sparsely wooded 
places on the western ridge, from which it appears, despite its 
position in the very heart of these Highlands, as open and 
trough-like, and apparently narrowing southward. The bound- 
ing highlands are, I believe, instrusive, for the great western 
ridge consists of red felsite, while the country to the eastward 
shows some of those typical boss-like summits so distinctive of 
intrusive rocks. And the origin of the valley appears to be clear. 
Both its appearance and its homology with other phenomena in 
this region, all to be considered more fully in a later note, 
(probably No. 118) imply that it is not primarily a valley of 
erosion, but occupies an interruption or structural gap in the 
intrusive highlands, once perhaps partially filled with softer 
Lindsay Erook, together with the 7V> miles below the County Line were very 
fully surveyed by Mr. D. F. Maxwell, though nothing relating especially thereto 
has yet been published. Meantime, in 1885, the Branch had been studied geolo- 
gically from the Forks to above the Falls by W. Mclnnes for the Geological Survey 
of Canada under direction of Professor L. W. Bailey, and the results are described 
in Professor Bailey’s Report for 1885 (G, 27), and embodied in the Geological 
Map, while Dr. Chalmers’ Surface Geology Map and Report of 1902, M, add a few 
facts as to elevations and portage roads. Aside from these reports and maps 
T know of no published references to this Branch, excepting only a sportsman’s 
account of hunting on the principal deadwater, in Forest and Stream, Oct. 31, 
1903, 335, and another in the same journal for Jan. 2, 1909, 15. 
On the Franquelin-DeMeulles map of 1686 this Branch is named Ouechitoucli- 
kik, obviously its Micmac name. It means, I think, simply “East Branch’’ (in 
distinction from the West Branch), including the roots of oochehenook, meaning 
“East” (Rand, Dictionary, 95) and of kej or ketch, meaning “Branch,” with 
the locative kik ; that is, it is equivalent ,to ooche-ketch-kik, “ East Branch Place.” 
This word could be simplified to Cheketch. 
