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the game trails are more abundant than I have seen them elsewhere 
in New Brunswick. One can walk around the lake with ease on these 
well beaten paths. Fresh beaver dams and houses are abundant. A 
little further on lies Mclnnes’ Lake, also the haunt of much game. 
Looking across it to the south-east, one can see the high watershed 
ridge, and beyond that Cow Mountain looms up. The forest about 
these lakes is more open than elsewhere, and here and there are some 
open spots where the huge dry boulders are covered simply with rein- 
deer moss, constituting a sort of small barren. Serpentine Lake is, 
like most of the others of the chain, hill encompassed. The points, so 
characteristic of the lake, are largely of boulders ; hence the shape of 
the lake as seen on the map is not the true shape of the valley in 
which it lies, for the latter is much more regular.* Between most of 
the lakes are good portage paths, many of them well beaten, and 
probably used for ages. In some places, however, they have become 
confused by the lumber roads, and between Third Lake and Portage 
Lake the old trail has been partially abandoned, and the lumber roads 
are used instead. 
Geology . — All that is known of this subject is to be found in the 
reports of Hind, and Bailey and Mclnnes, already mentioned. We 
have nothing new to offer. 
Natural History. — All that has been published is the work of 
Allen, already referred to. The botany will be treated from a fioristic 
point of view by Mr. Hay. My own studies were entirely upon the 
plant-formations, an ecological study, upon which a report will later 
be offered. 
The Origin of the Lakes . — An inquiry into their origin makes it at 
once clear that we are here dealing with a very typical group of 
Glacial lakes. A visit to the region, and even the inspection of the 
map, crude as it is, shows that the lakes lie in a series of nearly 
parallel or somewhat radiating valleys, into and across which masses 
of Glacial drift have been thrown. In some cases the drift formed a 
dam across the valley, leaving a part of it of its original depth, or 
nearly, as in the case of Long Lake, whose depth is thus explained. 
In other cases the valley has been well filled with the drift which, 
thrown down with great irregularity, has produced a shallow lake 
* The dam at the outlet of this lake held the water up about two feet, and hence for 
natural depths that amount is to be deducted from the figures on the map. 
