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They are entirely unsettled and wild, have been but little studied 
scientifically, and are imperfectly (in some cases, not at all,) mapped. 
Hence they form an attractive field for physiographic and natural 
history study. 
History . — These lakes first make their appearance upon the 
Eranquelin-DeMeulles map of 1686,* * * § where two of them (one clearly 
Trowsers Lake, though no names are given,) are shown in about their 
proper relations with Little South-West Lake. Their next represen- 
tation is upon the Lockwood map of 1826, on which they are laid 
down unnamed and very erroneously, but they are much better on the 
Baillie and Kendall map of 1832. In 1836-1838, however, the 
principal lakes, Trowsers (in part only), Long, Portage, Adder and 
Serpentine, were surveyed by Deputy Garden, and his results appear 
upon the later printed maps, especially Wilkinson’s of 1859. The 
earliest printed reference to the lakes occurs in Governor Gordon’s 
Wilderness Journeys,”! in which the author’s brief visit to Long 
and Trowsers Lakes in 1863 is described. } The next year Professor 
Hind visited the lakes ; and he has given us in his well-known 
Geological Report of 1 865 § a brief account of part of them, and his is 
the fullest description that has yet been published. 
In 1884 the lakes were laid down on Loggie’s large map with little 
or no improvement over Wilkinson, but in 1886 Mr. William Mclnnes, 
for the Geological Survey, visited the lakes, made observations upon 
their geology, took barometric measurements for their altitudes, and 
made a detailed micrometer survey || of Trowsers, Long and Serpentine 
Lakes, to which he added sketches of Gulquac, Milpagos and Milnagek 
Lakes, taken apparently from Hind’s descriptions. Mr. Mclnnes’ 
results are given briefly in the Report of Progress of the Geological 
Survey for 1887, and are embodied in the Geological map of the region, 
by far the best map published up to the present time. In the same 
year, Mr. John Y. Ellis visited Trowsers Lake, and published a 
popular account of his experiences in three articles in the St. John 
* On this map See Note 29 earlier, page 239. 
t St. John, 1864. Also in “Vacation Tourists,” Vol. III. Lor don, 1864. 
X The Indians were of course mistaken when they told Gordon he was the first white 
man to reach Long Lake, for Garden had surveyed it in 1838. 
§ A Preliminary Report on the Geology of New Brunswick, Fredericton, 1865. 
I! I am indebted to Mr. Mclnnes for a copy of his map, resulting from this survey, on a 
scale of one mile to an inch. For the lakes mentioned it forms the basis of the map accom- 
panying this paper. 
