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been mapped by plane-table, the mountains by triangulation, and 
the streams by traverses, and the whole has been adjusted to the 
timber-line surveys of the region (as shown on the plans of the 
Crown Land Office), while the contiguous waters have been 
added from various accessible sources. All streams that are 
shown by continuous lines have been surveyed, while those in 
broken lines have only been observed or are inferred. 
Of published references to the basin, I have been able to find 
but four. None of our earlier book-writing sportsmen visited 
it, nor is there any reference to it in any of the geological reports, 
or in other scientific literature, excepting my own brief references 
in Note 63 of this series, and my description of the remarkable 
Patcliel Brook and surroundings in Note 64. There is an account 
of a hunting trip to Gover Lake and Upper Graham Plain by 
Frederic Irland in Forest and Stream for February, 1902, and 
there is some mention of the region by E, Hough, who passed 
through it on a winter trip from the Nepisiguit, in the same 
journal for November 1, 1902. Other than these, no published 
references to the region appear to exist. It was first lumbered 
for pine in the early seventies by John McDougal, and some of 
the old pine hauling roads can still be seen and are used as trails. 
The first lumbering for spruce, however, began last winter 
(1903-1904), when M. C. Craig, of Perth, cut a portage road 
from Portage Lake to Gover Lake, built a camp at Gover Lake, 
and cut much good lumber in the vicinity. The basin abounds 
in big game, and is being gradually opened up to sportsmen by 
Mr. Henry Braithwaite, who first hunted here in 1884, and who 
has since opened trails and built camps as shown on the large 
map.* 
* We may here note the origin of the place-nomenclature on this map. Mit- 
chell Lake was named by Lyle in 1884 (as he once wrote me), in honor of the 
Surveyor General then in office, Hon. James Mitchell, and he named also Dark 
Lake and Moccasin Lake, both descriptive names, the latter of its shape. Dunn 
Lake was named by Hoyt in 1896 in honor of the Surveyor General of that time, 
Hon. John Dunn, and he also named Cave Brook, descriptively. Most of the other 
names were given by Mr. Braithwaite, as he informs me ; some are evidently de- 
scriptive, such as Caribou Brook, Sable Mountain, Pot-hole Brook, Thunder Moun- 
tain, Birch Lake, Portage Brook, Skunk Lake, and, presumably, Devils Lake. 
Others are for sportsmen he has guided there, as Graham Plains and Lake, Garrett 
Lakes, Wheeler Mountains, or for lumbermen, as MacDougal Lakes and Reeds 
