tages. As I have never been able to
procure correct information about the sources of this river or its
length, I have not the means of satisfying the reader on these points,
but must dismiss the subject with these few particulars, being all I
could obtain.

As was observed in the commencement of this work, this country is so
intersected with rivers, streams, and lakes, that with small portages
persons can go to most parts of the Province in a canoe. There is a
route from the Madawaska river to the Bay of Chaleur, and another from
the river St. John by the Grand River, which is fifteen miles above the
Great Falls, to the Ristagouche. The river Chicktahawk, which falls
into the St. John near the Presque-Isle, runs near a branch of the
Miramichi; a short portage connects the route. The route from the St.
Croix to the St. John is first by a chain of lakes with short portages,
and next by Eel river, which falls into the St. John about fifty miles
above Fredericton. There is another route from the St. John to the
Miramichi, by the way of the Jemseg, through the Grand Lake and up
Salmon river, from whence there is a short portage to the river Etienne
which falls into the Miramichi; with several other such communications
where the streams of the different large rivers nearly approach each
other.

The Mountains and Hills with which the Province is diversified, have
nothing peculiar to merit a particular description, except Mars Hill,
which has excited considerable interest, being supposed by the British
Commissioners under the treaty of Ghent to be the height of land
intended by the treaty of 1783, and that consequently the boundary line
between the territories of the United States and the British Provinces
should take a new direction at that place. This is resisted by the
American Commissioners, who wish to prolong the line beyond that point.
This is an object of great importance to the two powers, for should the
line be continued in the old direction, which at this point approaches
very near the river St. John, it would cross that river a little above
the Grand Falls, and would not only separate New-Brunswick and Canada,
but likewise give the Americans the upper part of the County of York
which joins Canada, with a large Settlement of French at
Madawaska--Mars Hill lies about six miles from the river St. John, on
the western side, about one hundred miles above Fredericton. It can be
seen from the high lands on the opposite s