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BULLETIN OF THE NATURAL HISTORY SOCIETY. 
John, our first historian, a man as yet uncommemorated in any place, 
name in this province, Champlain. May it be known, for the future, 
as Bald Mountain or Mount Champlain. 
Other names causing inconvenience by their repetition, are the 
Salmon Rivers. The Indian name for Salmon River flowing into Grand 
Lake is Cheminpic (Che-min'-pic) a not inharmonious name which 
would form an appropriate alternative. 
There is yet another name which might have its use. There 
existed at one time a great Glacial lake, filling all the lower part of the 
valley of the St. John and its tributaries. Elsewhere such Glacial 
lakes are now named. Very, appropriate for it would be the ancient 
Indian name of the St. John, after which it could be called Glacial Lake 
Woolastook. There is not likely to be any inconvenience in the use of 
this name for a Glacial lake and a physiographic district (Note 26). 
37. — The Physiographic History of the Restigouche. 
In an earlier note (No. 33) I pointed out what appears to be a 
very complicated history for one of our northern rivers, the Nepisiguit. 
Our northernmost river, the Restigouche, on the other hand, appears 
to have had a comparatively simple, though not uneventful, history. 
It rises in the great Silurian plateau some 500 to 600 feet above the 
sea, and flows easterly entirely through Silurian formation in a deepen- 
ing, narrow, but very winding valley, lacking a flood-plain, unbroken 
by a fall and without even a bad rapid from source to mouth. The 
narrowness of its valley, the steepness of its walls, and the lack of a 
flood-plain (except for small intervales on some of the bends and at the 
mouths of some of the principal branches), show that it is a compara- 
tively new river, while its winding course in its lower part shows that 
it must have originated in a very level country, on whose surface it 
wound about. Its upper part, however, above the Kedgewick, and 
especially above the Gounamitz or Little Fork, is somewhat different ; 
it is there straighter and has less fall than the lower part, and runs in 
a very open country, into which it has not cut deeply. If, now, this 
upper part were being formed by extension backward of the lower 
river, it should, upon well-known principles of river-development, 
have a greater fall than the lower part. Moreover, the relation of the 
direction of the river to the Grand River through the low-lying Wagan 
