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The latter were treated somewhat fully in an earlier note (No. 
55*) > while the three former I shall here consider, following obser- 
vations made on my visit to them in company with Professor 
Pierce in August last (1904). Their study was of particular 
interest to me, and long eagerly anticipated, because of their 
anomalous position directly across the general river trend of this- 
region. 
We consider first the development of our knowledge of these 
waters, and, because of their remoteness and difficulty of access, 
we find it all very recent. Their very first appearance in records 
is, as far as I have been able to find, as late as 1873, all frnaps 
prior to that time being an absolute blank in this region, and no 
published work of any kind making any reference to them. But 
in that year (1873) the Northumberland- York County line, sur- 
veyed by Malone, crossed the stream below the Crooked Dead- 
water, fixing its position ; and later in the same year the York- 
Yictoria line extended to meet it by Garden, crossed and located 
the Crooked Deadwater in two places, as well as minor streams 
in the vicinity. These surveys are the source of the first) printed 
representation of this stream, that on the Timber Lands map 
of 1875. (See accompanying copies of published maps, A). It 
makes no other appearance until 1885, in which year Loggie 
(Map, B) adds on his map sketches of Rocky Brook (Moose) 
Lake, and Indian Lake (without name), without doubt from 
information supplied by Edward Jack, who, as will presently be 
noted, was here in 1883. The later Geological Map of 1887 
* To which certain addenda et corrigenda may be noted. The visit of Messrs. 
Long and Cox co the lakes, a little over a week instead of several weeks in length, 
is described by the former in Outing for October, 1902. I find also that Dashwood 
visited the lakes ; he gives an interesting account of his trip in his Chiploquorgan 
page 100 ct. seq. Edward Jack ran a timber line across them in 1873, and was 
there again in 1883, as recorded later in this paper. Before that Colonel Maunsell 
with a party including two ladies, portaged from Long Lake to Big Like and 
descended the river ; he gives an account of his trip in some journal not at present 
known to me. There is also a very interesting narrative of a hunting trip to 
these lakes in Forest and Stream , December 22, 1894. 
Dr. Ells tells me that he was not at these lakes, though he was at the Big 
Deadwater to the northward. A note in a paper by Mr. Jack mentions that 
Holmes, for whom Holmes Lake is named, was a lumberman who cut pine timber 
here. Also I do not correctly repeat Mr. Jack’s remark about the absence of rock, 
exposures in this country ; he does not say there are none, but simply that he did 
not see any. 
