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moose, caribou, deer and beaver, by the all -pervading remoteness, 
wildness and primitiveness. The hills are never abrupt, nor have they 
bare tops nor sides ; they are like great irregular green swells of .the 
sea, suddenly fixed in stone. The forest is of the mixed sort, where 
the dark-green, spire-like tops of spruce and fir rise above the level of 
the brighter green of birch and maple. On the upper and smaller 
lakes, it has never been lumbered, and still is virgin and primeval. 
The lakes occupy valleys and hollows between the ridges, and show a 
•considerable variety of character. Some (like Long Lake, Merithews 
and Indian Lakes) occupy deep and narrow valleys with rocky, wooded 
shores, while others (like Milpagos) lie in shallow basins, are greatly 
broken by points and islands, and are bordered by bogs ; and there 
are all gradations between. The beauty of some of them is, however, 
marred by flooding, caused by dams, which gives their immediate 
shores a border of unsightly and well nigh impenetrable dead and 
dying trees. The lake shores are but rarely of sand or gravel (and 
then only at the ends of the longest and most exposed reaches), but 
they are almost invariably of loose boulders, which both extend up 
upon the hills and out into the lakes in long morainic peninsulas or 
islands. Indeed, ledge rock is a great rarity, and the prevalence of 
the boulders is a very characteristic feature of the region, though these 
occur by no means of the size and conspicuousness familiar to us 
about the lakes in the southwestern part of the province. 
Altitudes . — The only measurements of altitudes hitherto taken in 
this region were those of Mr. Mclnnes, made in 1886. He gives an 
elevation of 1,360 feet for Trowsers Lake, 1,370 for Long Lake, and 
1,450 for Serpentine. During our stay we made as many observations 
as possible with a good aneroid. These were taken synchronously 
with the readings at Fredericton, and have since been corrected for 
weather by comparison with these, and for error of the instrument.* 
They have given the following results, above mean sea level. All 
calculations are conservative, leaning rather to too low than to too 
high levels : 
Trowsers Lake, mean of 15 observations, 1,243 feet. 
Mud or Milpagos Lake, 90 feet above Trowsers, hence 1,333 feet. 
•Fora full set of readings from the Fredericton Meteorological Station, I am indebted 
to Dr. Harrison, of the University of New Brunswick. For regulating and calculating the 
error of my aneroid, I have to thank Mr. Hutchinson, of the Meteorological Station at 
St. John. 
