Note 31 — Chapter XI
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It would be interesting to know the exact location of the “portage” referred to above. Was it the rocky neck between Marble Cove at Indiantown and the Straight Shore? Or was it the comparatively slight obstruction at Drury’s Cove that prevents the river finding an outlet by way of the Marsh Creek into Courtenay Bay? See on this head Dr. George F. Matthew’s interesting paper on “The Outlets of the St. John River:” Nat. Hist. Society bulletin No. xii., p. 42.