NATURAL HISTORY AND PHYSIOGRAPHY OF NEW BRUNSWICK. 333 
The mind of man is so constructed that it is prone to imagine 
things rare and choice in places remote and hard to reach, and 
so we looked forward hopefully to finding something especially 
worthy of note in these distant parts. But in fact nothing remark- 
able was met with, though many facts of minor interest, here set 
down, did result from our journey. Indeed it would not be 
difficult to predict the character of the region from an inspection 
of its geographical and geological position, for, lying as it does 
in the central crystalline belt, which is predominently granite, it 
displays all the distinctive characters to be expected in such a posi- 
tion — the boulder-strewn irregular surface, with much inferior 
spruce-heath forest, the obstructed drainage with its many shal- 
low lakes and ponds, the dark waters with their abundant bog 
and muddy bottoms. It is a typical grainitic region, though 
more attractive than such places usually are because of its fine 
hill views and the great abundance of its animal life. 
The Walkemik basin is hollowed out in a remarkable manner 
from the great central plateau of the province. This plateau, 
much dissected to the southward, is still almost intact upon the 
west and north. On the northwest it has an apparent elevation 
of some 1900 feet above the sea, and 500 or 600 above! the basin, 
down to which it slopes with much abruptness. Its edge is here 
emargined by the sources of some of the streams, but apparently 
Lake , while Logan Lake , Gover Lake and Patchel Brook were for men employed 
by him at those places, and Smiths Lake for an old hunter. The names on Ser- 
pentine waters, Wigwam Pond and Kains Lake and Ridge Mountain were given by 
Mr. Furbish and myself in 1902 (Note 63), and we named Bertons Ridge and the 
Big Dead-water in 1901 (Note 55 ). This year Mr. Pierce and I have given new 
names to previously unnamed places ; following the suggestion given by the presence 
of the names of two surveyor generals, we have tried to honor the names of some of 
the principal men who have been connected with the administration of the Crown 
Lands of the province, and have named Loggie Mountains, Wilkinson Mountain, 
Lockwood Mountain, O’Connor Mountain and Sproule Mountains, as noted later in 
this paper. We have also named Middle Brook and Pocket Pond descriptively, 
and Tendon Ponds, in recollection of an accident one of us had there. Senda Lake 
we have given for a friend of ours. We have also ventured to transfer the name 
Hough (for the sportsman-writer earlier mentioned) from an apparent application 
to the ridge likely to be confused with Wilkinson Mountain to the little lake pre- 
viously unnamed. Cow Mountains (wrongly applied by Hoyt in his pi m to 
Thunder Mountain) is said by E. Jack, in a MSS. lecture of his of 1883 ( mentioned 
in the preceding note) to be a lumberman’s name, probably in allusion to Cow 
Moose, but I suspect it is an alteration or corruption of “ County Line Moun- 
tains.” 
