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evidently built by the spring itself. It seemed to consist chiefly, if 
not wholly, of vegetable matter, including many fine interlacing roots, 
possibly those of the neighboring trees attracted to this position by 
their hydrotropism. Unfortunately, conditions at the time of our visit 
(in July last) did not allow us to make a careful examination. The 
guide accompanying Mr. M. I. Furbish, my companion at the time, 
stated that he had seen somewhat similar, though much less perfect, 
examples in the hardwood regions in Maine. I do not myself recall 
having seen anything like it elsewhere. 
42.— On a Strange Position for a Peat-bog. 
In the angle between the Main Tobique River and its Right-hand 
Branch, some five miles back from both, rises Bald Head, in many 
respects the most striking, easily-recognized and mountain-like mountain 
in New Brunswick. It rises perfectly abruptly some thousand feet 
above a flat basin, and its steep bare top is a conspicuous and unmis- 
takeable object from every direction It is locally reputed to be 
simply a heap of loose stones, which well describes the impression it 
makes upon one, but the description is not correct, for the top is of 
ledge rock. The southern slope is inaccessible, but the northern is 
easy to climb, though it consists of large, loose, angular felsite boulders 
at as steep a slope as they can rest. This slope, measured by a pro- 
tractor on one of Mr. Hay’s photographs, is 30°; but, owing to the 
distortion produced by the camera, it must be considerably greater. 
Upon this northern slope, resting upon the loose rocks, lie several 
small living sphagnum bogs. It is a sight calculated to make any 
botanist rub his eyes and wonder if much study hath not made him 
mad. These bogs are from about half an acre in extent down to a few 
square yards. At their upper margins they consist of the ordinary 
dry turf formed by the roots of trees, etc., not infrequent over rocky 
places, but downwards this passes gradually over into sphagnum bog, 
bearing Kalmia, Ledum, dwarfed spruces, and the other characteristic 
raised-bog (Hockmoor) vegetation. The bog reaches its greatest 
perfection at the lower margin, where the red sphagnum occurs in 
dense rounded polsters, evidently with sufficient moisture for healthy 
*The Geological Survey map makes it 1,866 feet above mean sea-level. In July, 1900. 
we made it by aneroid over 1,000 feet above the basin in which it stands, and 1,425 feet above 
the bridge at Riley Brook, 
