NATURAL HISTORY AND PHYSIOGRAPHY OF NEW BRUNSWICK. ]()7 
into private hands. If the proceeds of their sale were wisely 
used and invested, and not wasted, the end result would be the 
same to the people of the province, so far as taxation is con- 
cerned, while the general prosperity would be much enhanced 
by the better management of the forests. 
1 15. — The Highest New Brunswick Waterfalls. 
Supplementary to Note No. 109. 
In a note published in the preceding Bulletin of this Society, 
I gave the results of an attempt to measure by triangulation the 
height of the Fall Brook (Miramichi) waterfall, commonly 
reputed the highest in New Brunswick. I have never been satis- 
fied with that measurement, and in August, 1909, with the aid of 
Mr. William Laskey, of Fredericton, I made a new measure- 
ment by what may be called the natural method, — viz., lowering 
a weighted cord from the brink of the fall to the pool below. 
The result, when corrected for inclination of the cord, stretching 
by the weight, etc., gives the. fall a total height of about no 
feet. This is a great difference from the 75 feet given by the 
triangulation, but the conditions of the latter were so unfavour- 
able that I consider it of little worth in comparison with the 
recent measurement. I may add that while I am satisfied as to 
the substantial correctness of this latter measurement, I propose 
to measure the fall again, using a non-elastic wire and precau- 
tions which will ensure a result accurate within a foot. 
It will be of interest to add here two references to this fall 
which I have found since the earlier note was written. On 
Scully’s MlS. map of 1832 (in the Crown Land Office), showing 
the County Boundary just to the eastward, the fall is marked, 
with the words, “ Falls nearly 100 feet perpend’r.” This is the 
earliest known reference to it. Again Dr. Charles Robb, in the 
Report of the Geological Survey of Canada for 1866-69, 192, 
says it has “ at least 130 feet of uninterrupted descent, present- 
ing a singularly wild and picturesque scene.” Probably it was 
