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Fredericton and St. John. I wish here to thank Dr. Harrison of the 

 University, and Mr. Hutchinson of St. John for lists which they have 

 supplied to me. Mr. Hutchinson also, on July 9th, determined the 

 error of my aneroid, and this of course has been taken into account in 

 calculating the results below. Many of my readings were taken at 

 times so different from those of the two stations that I have rejected 

 them, and I have kept only those of the five important points here 

 mentioned. In none of the cases admitted did the time between my 

 reading and those of one of the stations exceed twenty-four minutes, 

 except in one of the Mount Pleasant observations, when it was sixty-six 

 minutes, on a very clear day. It will be noticed that in all cases 

 comparison with figures from the Fredericton Station gave results 

 higher than those from the St. John Station. The list of readings 

 from Mr. Hutchinson was reduced to mean sea-level, while those from 

 Fredericton were for a height 164 feet above it ; and the constancy of 

 the discrepancy suggests that the height assigned to the Fredericton 

 Station is too great. I do not give all of the figures in detail, since at 

 the best, like most other measurements of this kind which have been made 

 in New Brunswick, they can be but approximations, but I have calculated 

 them carefully and repeatedly, and think there is no error in the figuring. 

 The three places first mentioned have not been measured before : 



Surface of Victoria Lake, Charlotte County. — Saturday and Sunday, July 

 17 and 18. — Two observations compared with Fredericton, 624 and 614 feet; 

 two compared with St. John, 480 and 510 feet; mean of all, 557 feet. This 

 agrees with another measurement made July 10th, which by direct, uncorrected 

 reading made Cundy Lake about 500 feet above the railroad at Bonny River, 

 and hence about 600 feet above mean tide. Cundy is about forty-five feet above 

 Victoria, which thus would be 555 feet above the sea. 



Eagle Mountain, Charlotte County (near boundary of Kings). — By direct 

 measurement, July 20, this mountain was 520 feet above the mouth of Eagle 

 Mountain Brook; latter, by comparison with Fredericton, is 334 feet above the 

 sea; hence Eagle Mountain is S54 feet. 



Mount Pleasant, Charlotte County. — Aug. 12 and 13. — By comparison with 

 Fredericton, 1,224 feet; with St. John, 1,175; mean, 1,200. Gesner, in his 

 first Geological Report, guessed its height to be 1,300 feet, and Mahood, upon 

 one of his MS. plans in the Crown Land Office, guessed it at 3,000 feet. 



Bald Mountain, on the Kings-Queens Boundary. — Aug. 14. —By comparison 

 with Fredericton, 1,494 feet above mean sea-level; by comparison with St. 

 John, 1,430 feet; mean of the two, 1,462 feet. Conditions were particularly 

 favorable, and my observations covered the time of both stations. Gesner, in 

 one of his reports, guessed its height to be 1,120 feet; the Surface Geology map, 

 probably following Gesner, gives it as 1,120 feet; Mr. William Murdoch of St. 

 John, by theodolite angle, has given it to me as 1,390 feet. 



Cherry Hill, Harvey. -Sept. 3. — By direct measurement, above the track, 

 315 feet; by comparison with Fredericton, 884 feet above mean sea-level. 



