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above the surrounding country. Possibly, however, the Geological 
map is not correct in making it of the same formation as the 
surrounding country, for it marks Squaw Cap and Slate Mountain 
in Restigouche as Silurian when they are really intrusive volcanic- 
Mars Hill is perhaps an imperfect monadnock. An example of a 
seeming, and perhaps a real, monadnock is Bald Head in Victoria 
County, which rises abruptly from a flat though limited plain It is 
of pre-Cambrian felsite, and now surrounded by later formations; 
but, not being intrusive, it must at some time have been isolated by 
erosion from the other felsite areas to the eastward. 
36. — Further Suggestions Upon Nomenclature of Unnamed or 
Badly Named Places in New Brunswick. 
The practical inconvenience arising from the repetition of the same 
name for different places in New Brunswick is not only at present con. 
siderable, but is sure to increase as the province becomes better 
settled. Attention was called to this subject not long ago in an 
editorial in the St. John Telegraph , which suggested that the moun- 
tains called Bald, so numerous in New Brunswick, should gradually be 
re-named. Practically, the best preliminary to this, is the suggestion 
of good alternative names. This has been done already by Governor 
Gordon for Bald Mountain on Nictor Lake which he called Sagamook , 
and the name has come into at least literary use ; and lately the name 
Denys has been proposed as an alternative for Bald Mountain near 
Indian Falls on Nepisiguit (Note No. 30). Another Bald Moun- 
tain for which an alternative name is happily available, is that north- 
east of Harvey Station in York County. On a splendid manuscript 
map of New Brunswick, made in 1786, now in the Public Record 
Office in London, this mountain is called Wadawamketch Mountain, 
evidently an Indian name. For such natural features of the country 
as mountains, no names could be more appropriate than those of 
Indian origin, and they should be adopted in preference to all others 
whenever available. Another Bald Mountain which, however, seems 
to have no Indian name, is the fine one on the Kings-Queens boundary. 
An alternative name for it is certainly most desirable. What more 
appropriate name could it bear than that of the first great European 
explorer known to us to have gazed upon it, the discoverer of the St. 
