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tire of his journey and notes descriptive of localities, but various- ; 
observations on natural history as well.* ** No professional 
naturalist or geologist has hitherto reached the region, the repre- 
sentation of its geology on the geological map being simply 
inferential. The Crooked Deadwater has, however, been several 
times visited in recent years by the sportsman-writer, Frederic' 
Irland, who refers to it in several of his writings, notably in “The* 
Coming of the Snow,” in Scribner’s for January, 1897, and in 
“ Hunting with Henry Braithwaite,” in Forest and Stream, . 
February 1, 1902. It is also mentioned by E. Hough, who was- 
here in the winter, in Forest and Stream for November 1 and 8,.. 
1902, and I have also seen other scattered references to this 
famous hunting ground in the same journal and elsewhere,., 
though none of importance. The region is of course unsettled,, 
but Mr. Braithwaite, doyen of New Brunswick guides, has hunt- 
ed here since 1874, or earlier, and has several camps in the region,, 
to which he takes sportsmen every year. Recently it has been’ 
lumbered for spruce, leaving camps and a dam as noted on the’ 
maps. All of the lands represented on the map west of the 
Northumberland County line belong to the New Brunswick Rail- 
way Company, with the exception of a small area shown on the 
map, which, with all of the lands to the east of the afore-men- 
tioned county line, are Crown Lands. 51 ' * 
We consider now the several parts of this interesting river... 
1. Indian Lake and its Stream . — Indian Lake is one of the- 
most charming, as it is one of the most remote, of New Bruns- 
wick lakes. It lies in an east and west direction in a nook, as it 
were, well up (1612 feet above the sea) towards the summit of 
the great Central Plateau, which nearly surrounds it with finely 
forested hills, culminating in three prettily wooded summits some' 
* The MSS. is in possession of Mr. D. R. Jack, of St. John, to whom I am 
indebted for the use of it. It is to be published with annotations in an early 
number (probably April, 1905,) of the magazine, Acadiensis. 
** The place-nomenclature appears to be entirely descriptive and recent. Most’ 
of the names, perhaps all, have been given by Mr. Braithwaite; some are obviously 
descriptive, and of the others he tells me Parker, Chestnut, Rumsey, Kipler (as it 
should read on the map) are for sportsmen he has guided there, and Indian Lake 
commemorates his finding fourteen Indians camped there on his first visit. 
