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perhaps $500,000. * Mr. Henry Gannett, Geographer of the United 

 States Geological Survey, and the leading American authority upon 

 this subject, in acknowledging the receipt of a copy of the afore-men- 

 tioned note, writes me as follows : " Referring to what you say 

 concerning a survey of the province, let me suggest that a scale of 

 about two miles to an inch is sufficiently large for present require- 

 ments. This is the scale which we are using in this country for the 

 greater part of our territory and find it, on the whole, most satis- 

 factory." 



"The expense of a survey for this scale, including all the opera- 

 tions incident to the production of the manuscript maps amounts on 

 an average, to about $5.00 to a square mile, which for the area of 

 New Brunswick, will be about $140,000, which is not a prohibitive 

 price to pay." 



A very complete, and of course authoritative, account of the 

 methods of conducting topographical surveys and of constructing 

 topographical maps is given by Mr. Gannett, in his " Aims and 

 Methods of Cartography " recently published by the Geological Survey 

 of Maryland (Special Publication, Volume II., Part. IIIa, 1898), and 

 this work is invaluable to all interested in this subject. 



A topographical survey of New Brunswick must in time be under- 

 taken, and so great will be its scientific and economic benefits that 

 this Society should use its utmost influence to have it begun as soon 

 as possible. 



25. — What is the Highest Land in New Brunswick 1 



(Read April 4th ; re-written December, 1899.) 



In former notes of this series (Nos. 5 and 19), it was pointed out 

 that two hills compete for the honor of being the highest in New 

 Brunswick, namely : Big Bald Mountain on the South Branch of Ne- 

 pisiguit, and another unnamed mountain three miles south of Mount 

 Sagamook near Nictor Lake. The latter of these two, I shall, for 

 reasons to be given in a later note (No. 30) call Mount Carleton.* 



The height of Big Bald was measured in 1880 by Mr. Ells, and 



* I find that I was probably mistaken in my supposition (Note 19) that this mountain 

 was the one to which the name Bald originally and propel ly belonged. It is Sagamook 

 wnich is called Bald by the guides and c thers, and on the early plans. Mount Carleton 

 appears hitherto to have been entirely unnamed. 



