New Brunswick; with notes for emigrants. Comprehending the early history, an account of the Indians, settlement ... / By Abraham Gesner.

  • Abraham Pineo Gesner
Date:
1847
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: New Brunswick; with notes for emigrants. Comprehending the early history, an account of the Indians, settlement ... / By Abraham Gesner. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    sealed by a woman. They arise from the confinement of the water between high rocky cliffs. The distance between the cataract and the town of Woodstock is 72 miles. This part of the St. John receives two great tributaries, the Aroostook and the Tobique. Besides these, there -are the Pecagomik, opposite the village of Wakefield; the Shictahank, Monquart, and Munic, which flow in from the northward, having taken their rise near the head of the south-west Miramichi. The Presq’ Isle and River des Chutes, two small streams, enter from the north-west. The Aroostook is the largest tributary of the St. John; its sources are at Lakes Millinoket and Millinoketsis, near the head waters of the Penobscot, in the State of Maine. The distance between one of the tributaries of the Penobscot and the Aroostook is only 186 rods. This river enters the St. John from the westward, eighteen miles below the Grand Falls, and is navigable for boats and rafts of timber 100 miles. In its course, it receives ten minor streams. The river and several of its branches run through an expanded valley of excellent soil, and all the streams are skirted with rich intervales. The pine forests. will afford for many years a great supply of the best timber, the chief part of which must be transported down the St. John before it can be shipped for market. By: the ratification of the late treaty inthe settlement of the Boundary question, the whole of the Aroostook territory was transferred to the Americans: Previous to that period the whole district was almost an’ uninhabited wilderness; but its’ excellent soil and timber soon attracted the people of the United States after the termination of the dispute, and improvements of every kind are now rapidly advancing. Fort Fairfield, belonging to the Americans, is situated five miles. from. the St. John, where the Boundary line crosses the Aroostook. Three miles below the fort, on the British side, the river passes through a narrow gorge, where there is a frightful rapid. At the lower part of this rapid there is a Fall of seventeen feet, and the water descends by © two steps into a beautiful basin. A rock situated in the middle of the Falls divides the stream, and the cliffs on each side are forty feet high. These Falls, as well as those of the St. John, have retreated some distance, and both of them are still slowly advancing up the rivers that
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