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is kept a foot or more higher than normal by a huge beaver dam across 
its outlet. This dam was described by Hind, and his description is 
still applicable. The southern end of the basin is filled by an immense 
bog through which meanders the deadwater stream. It is more fre- 
quented by moose than any place I have ever seen. In one day we 
counted nine about it, while Mr. Furbish on another day saw no less 
than fourteen. Trowsers Lake is attractive, though injured by the dead 
trees killed by the dam at its outlet. This dam holds the water some 
six feet above its normal level, so that for natural depth the figures 
on the map are six feet too high. The Twin Mountains on the east 
cannot be seen from most of the lakes, but only from near the Long 
Lake Portage. Blind Lake is very pretty with high wooded banks. 
It seems about twenty feet above Trowsers Lake. It is said to have 
no inlet nor outlet, but probably it has both through the great 
boulders of which its basin appears entirely to consist. Lhoks Lake 
is a beaver pond, at least in part. The Portage from Trousers Lake 
is low, and appears to follow some ancient communication between the 
two valleys. Long Lake is by far the most beautiful of all the 
larger lakes. It has no dam at the outlet and hence the shores are 
unmarred. Bold headlands are numerous, while the hills are every- 
where fine and the views up and down particularly grand. It is one 
of the few lakes in the province containing togue, a fish which seems 
to occupy only deep lakes. Off to the southward is the great water- 
shed ridge, nearly 500 feet high, separating these waters from the 
Miramichi system. Island or Milnagec Lake lies over 250 feet above 
Long Lake, into which it tumbles by a very pretty brook in a series 
of cascades. It is extremely beautiful, with its many wooded islands 
and splendid wooded ridges about it. It occupies a great hill basin 
apparently on a height of land between the Long and Trowsers Lake 
valleys. It is wild and untouched in any visible way by the hand . of 
man. It is at the same time the highest and one of the most charming 
of New Brunswick lakes. Third Lake resembles Long, but Second is 
spoiled by a new dam. The beaver ponds on the portage road to 
Portage Lake, are very typical and show new dams. Portage 
Lake is also attractive, the more so from the new beaver dams 
and houses at its upper end. Adder Lake has the usual high wooded 
shores. Into it, at the western end there falls by a series of cascades, 
a large stream. A mile up this stream lies Hind Lake, about which 
