"The valley of Deer Lake widens out until it is about 20 miles from mountain crest to mountain crest. The bottom about 10 or 20 feet above the lake is all of sand and gravel the bottom of a former higher level. The Carh, of Deer Lake seems to me to lie in an old depression of pre-Carb. age. I rather think it came in from the north-east. The country between Deer Lake and Swan Lake has a wide nearly flat bottom that may be 20 miles across. On its each side. In this bottom land lies the Caribou farms. There is also much accumulative material of large boulders. To the south and west is the slightly uneven crest line of the Laurentian rocks. These mountains appear not to be over 1000 feet high. Just before one gets to Kittys Brook and Emerson the entire country is crowded with moraines of the