NATURAL HISTORY AND PHYSIOGRAPHY OF NEW BRUNSWICK. 
337 
by direct aneroid measurement 947 feet above the Stillwater, which 
by a mean of six observations, made synchronous with and corrected 
by readings at Fredericton, is 1,212 feet above mean sea-level. The 
western peak is therefore 2,159 feet above the sea. But the eastern 
peak is by direct aneroid measurement 370 feet above the western, 
and hence 2,529 feet above the sea, thus making Nalaisk one of the 
greater mountains of the province. All of my measurements are 
conservative throughout, and below rather than above actual height ; 
hence Nalaisk certainly belongs to the honorary 2,500 foot class of 
New Brunswick mountains.* 
Some five miles away, bearing N. 22° east magnetic (from Bald 
Head N. 75° east magnetic) is another great mountain far back from 
the river, and seemingly higher than Nalaisk. 
The name Nalaisk perpetuates the ancient Indian name of the 
Serpentine. It is unquestionably the mountain referred to by Lugrin, 
in an article in the St. John Globe , Feb. 10, 1886, when he states, 
after referring to Bald (Sagamook) Mountain and others, “ the Indians 
say that Noll-isk Mountain on the Serpentine branch is higher than 
either of them.” 
41. — On a Remarkable Crateriform Spring near the Negoot 
Lakes. 
Some four miles south-east of Long Lake, of the Negoot chain, and 
nearly on the county line, is a shallow valley with a tiny stream 
emptying towards the Little South-west Miramichi Lake. On the 
flat bottom of the valley, near the stream and amongst a dense growth 
of the usual hardwood swamp trees, lies a beautiful spring, very clear 
and very cold. It is nearly circular, and some two or three feet across 
and over a foot deep, and is especially peculiar in this, that its water 
surface stands a foot or more above the general level of the ground, 
held up to that height by a symmetrical wall forming a regular basin, 
as a lake may be held in the crater of a volcano. This wall was 
* This class includes only Sagamook, (Jarleton, Big Bald, Nalaisk, that have been mea- 
sured ; but unquestionably there are very many others still unmeasured in less accessible 
places. Perhaps Cow Mountain belongs in the series, though Mr. W. B. Hoyt, of Andover, 
informs me that he has measured it by aneroid (unchecked for weather) and partly thus 
and partly by triangulation, has made it 2400 feet. Mr. Hoyt sends me a number of aneroid 
measurements made in that vicinity, but as they are unconnected from any fixed base, 
they can be but rough approximations. 
