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attending the operations of the unmusical apparatus, that the crusher had to be removed, and the site of the old alms house was devoted to its present public use.

41. The true Indian name of the St. John River is Wool-ahś-took (or when applied from a distance, Wool-ahs-ta-gooḱ), meaning, as we would say in English, "a fine river." This is its name among both Maliseets and Micmacs, and they have no other name for it. It is sometimes said its true Indian name is Ouigoudi or Wigudi. This rests solely upon a single statement by Champlain, who says the river is called Ouigoudi by the Indians, and several writers have re-peated his statement. The late Edward Jack was the first to point out that the Indians never apply this name to a river, but that they do apply it to camping-grounds and sites of villages everywhere. That Champlain, unfamiliar with this language, should have confounded their name for their village at St. John with their name for the river is not difficult to understand. This is fully confirmed by the fact that Lescarbot applies the name Oigoudito the village at St. John. The Indians never applied the same name to a and a river; the whole construction of their place-village names is opposed to this. The subject is discussed in Transactions Royal Society Canada. 1896, sect. ii, p. 269.

42. The position of the highest land in New Brunswick is discussed in the Bulletin of the Natural History Society No. 16, page 46. The highest land is often said to be the Big Bald Mountain on the South Branch of Nepisguit, about 2700 feet above sea-level. This, however, seems to be a mistake, for it rests entirely on the authority of the Geological Survey map, and the report accompanying that map makes it 2,500 feet. Inquiry at the Survey office seems to show that