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solution of all these interesting questions awaits a more thorough 
study than can be given by any method not based on an accurate 
topographical survey. 
Rocky Brook * 
This large branch rises in the very attractive Moose (or 
Rocky Brook) Lake in a relation to Little Southwest Miramichi 
waters fully described and mapped in Note No. 86 of this series. 
Thence downward to the forks of the Spider Lake Branch I 
have not seen it, but all indications make it a rough stream. The 
Spider Lake Branch issues from an extensive open country, 
containing ponds and deadwaters, which are margined by great 
black spruce bogs and connected by sluggish dark boulder- 
strewn streams, — a typical country of bad drainage broken by 
low ridges. This character the country appears to exhibit also 
off to the eastward, and no doubt the same features continue 
into the region of innumerable ponds which lie at the source of 
the Dungarvon. Evidently we have here another of these great 
basins in the midst of highlands, very like that at the source of 
the Clearwater, and a characteristic feature of the interior of 
New Brunswick. Spider Lake, lying between ridges and 
irregular in outline, is attractive, and being within easy reach 
of boggy ponds is a hunting centre of importance. Its outlet 
falls much in places, and elsewhere forms long deadwaters. 
The united streams runs southward in a bed which is rough and 
stony, at least at the several points where I have seen it, in a 
country which is high on the west but lower on the east. A 
* This is, no doubt, the stream to which the Micmac name Tatagoumisak is 
meant to apply on the map of 1686. The root tata is no doubt the same as in 
Tetagouche, though its meaning is not clear, while the root goumisak appears to 
mean scraggy and rough (compare Rand, Micmac Reader, 100, Misegumisk, mean- 
ing “scraggy and rough”), a word which well describes the character of the 
stream. It appears first on the Allen map of 1831, and its relations with the 
Dungarvon were well laid down in general on the Scully (MS.) map of the 
Northumberland-York County Line in 1832. There is some account of a pre- 
liminary railway survey by W. H. Tremaine passing near its sources in Report 
on the Intercolonial Railway Exploratory Survey (Edition 1868), 93, and a mention 
of its source lakes, in this Society’s Bulletin, V, 1904, 319 ; but otherwise no 
references to the Branch occur in any records known to me. 
