NATURAL HISTORY AND PHYSIOGRAPHY OF NEW BRUNSWICK. 93 . 
curve at first north, then west, then south and finally southeast, 
all in a part of the great open Forks Basin. Finally it turns 
almost east, and for its lower three miles, cuts a deep gulch-like 
valley, with a rough narrow bed, right across a projection from 
the highlands on the east, thereby isolating the striking and con- 
spicuous Lewey’s Mountain. 
The general topography of the region implies that this stream 
formerly emptied a part of Bedel Brook (the watershed between 
being so low that lumber has been hauled across from Bedel 
Brook to McKeel Brook), and perhaps a part of the North 
Branch. Moreover, it no doubt emptied originally southward 
into the Miramichi Lake Valley. The lower three miles seems 
obviously a continuation of that part of the Main Southwest 
below it, and possibly this united stream drained originally to 
the westward. 
Burnt Hill Brook* * 
This large and important branch interlocks at its source with 
branches of River de Chute in that remarkable trough-basin 
which lies in the very axis of the Central Highlands, as will be 
■described more fully under the account of the Clearwater. Its 
sdurce is in Beaver Lake fa very pretty little lake with rising 
shores, pleasant hill views, and a great abundance of big moose), 
lying at the elevation of 1383 feet, as shown by railway levels. 
(compare Rand, Micmac Reader, 102, Pulamkeegunuchk, “ an outlet cut through 
the sand”), while the tea, which I cannot explain, very likely describes the fact 
that the outlet of this stream is in a deep ravine through a shoulder of the high- 
lands, although its upper course is in an open country. The lake, with most of 
the stream, has not been surveyed, although part of the latter has been located by 
the County Line survey. It does not figure in any printed literature known to me, 
aside from a reference in Jack’s paper mentioned in the next footnote. It is 
named, I believe, for a lumberman, while Lewey’s Mountain is so called for an 
Indian chief and trapper. 
* This branch is named on the Franquelin-DeMeulles map Pichiamnach, its 
Micmac name, which is obviously identical with the present Indian name of the 
Big Clearwater. By the Maliseet Indians it is called Pes-ki-o-mi-ni-sis, the 
diminutive of their name for the Big Clearwater. Both words are discussed in 
the next footnote. The stream has not been surveyed in any part, though the 
preliminary surveys of the National Transcontinental Railway touched its head 
at Beaver Lake ; for the remainder it is simply sketched between the points estab- 
lished by intersection of the timber lines, though I have added on the accompany- 
ing map much information obtained from lumbermen and guides. It was first 
