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BULLETIN OF THE NATURAL HISTORY SOCIETY. 
The Crooked Deadwater region is a famous hunting ground, 
replete with moose and other big game. 
3. The River from Crooked Deadzoater to Big ( Tuadook ) 
Lake . — This part of the river occupies a valley cut deeply, some 
400 or 500 feet, into the plateau, but fairly broad and moderately 
mature. It has much fall, over 200 feet in about five miles, and 
is almost continuously rapid, flowing usually, if not entirely, 
over drift. It is obviously long pre-glacial in origin, and as 
above noted, it is a part of a valley extending off to the west- 
ward. It seems plain that this valley is homologous in origin 
with the parallel valley to the southward of it, that extending 
from Indian Lake to Renous Lake. But the question as to their 
mode of origin is one of the most puzzling in all the range of 
New Brunswick physiography, and I sought in vain during my 
two visits, in 1901 and 1904, to find some clue to its solution. 
Since these two rivers cut directly across at right angles to the 
general original river-trend of this region, which is plainly north- 
west-southeast, and since these valleys are obviously newer than 
the more ancient series, I can only surmise that they owe their 
origin to some local causes, whether softer rocks, fault lines, 
ancient glacial phenomena, or other, is still to be determined. 
We appear to have a similar problem in certain other parts of 
the province, namely, in the part of the Nepisiguit between 
Indian Falls and Grand Falls, and in that part of the Main 
Southwest Miramichi between the North Branch and Fall Brook. 
Thus, although much is still doubtful about the origin of this 
exceptional river, enough is evident to make it reasonably certain 
that it is a remarkably composite system, consisting of parts of 
two ancient northwest-southeast valleys, cut across and captured 
by two later northeast-southwest valleys, the whole modified in 
some details by glacial action. 
