NATURAL HISTORY AND PHYSIOGRAPHY OF NEW BRUNSWICK. 325 
four hundred feet over its surface and closing its western end. 
These hills show four breaks. First there is a gap towards the 
southwest in the direction of the Clearwater, and it may indicate 
some former connection with those waters. Second, there is a. 
valley entering from the north-northwest; it is apparently occu- 
pied by the only inlet of the lake, and is in part followed by the 
trail to Parker Lake, a typical shallow mud-and-reed lake higher 
up on the Plateau and now emptying westward, though perhaps 
originally belonging to this valley. Third, there is the present out- 
let to the eastward. Fourth, there is a gap to the east-southeast 
in the direction of Moose Lake, which is followed by the trail ;o 
that lake. Moose Lake is another very charming hill-encircled, 
or, rather, plateau-encircled lake, lying now sixty-one feet higher 
than Indian Lake, and hence 1673 feet above the sea, and, evi- 
dently, the highest lake of any size in the province. The water- 
shed between these two lakes, however, is but little (only a few 
feet) above Moose Lake, and it seems not improbable that Moose 
Lake emptied in immediately pre-glacial times through this gap 
into the Indian Lake valley, in which case the outlet of Moose 
Lake through Rocky Brook will be found to be post-glacial. 
However this may be, these two lakes appear to me to occupy 
parts of a single ancient valley which headed on the plateau not 
far from Parker Lake and ran southeast across both of these lakes 
by way of upper Rocky Brook into Dungarvon waters (a branch 
south of the parts shown on the map), and it is possible this may 
be the true morphological head of the latter river. While all 
observed facts, together with the analogy of the river directions 
in this region, would make this the original direction of flow of 
these waters, it is evident that it has long been modified, and that 
in times long pre-glacial, Indian Lake, and perhaps (as above 
noted) Moose Lake also, flowed by the present course to the 
Crooked Deadwater. 
The present stream from Indian Lake to Crooked Deadwater 
flows with much fall (262 feet) eastwardly and northeastwardly 
through a somewhat narrow, winding, drift-bottomed and obvi- 
ously pre-glacial valley some four miles, when it suddenly turns 
north to flow into the Crooked Deadwater. Just at the turn it 
