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a portion of the survey of Chiputneticook is in possession of Mr. Ray- 
mond, but contains little of local interest. The remaining field books, 
diaries, and the original maps of the river are entirely unknown to me. 
No copies of any of these original maps are now to be found in the 
Crown Land Office at Fredericton, though they must once have been 
there, since George Sproule, Surveyor General of New Brunswick, of 
course had them when he compiled the Commissioners map (our 
present map No. 20). 
The maps resulting from these surveys were as accurate as could 
be made at that time, and they immediately became, and have ever 
since remained, the original or mother-maps for all maps of that re- 
gion, and they are the original of all of our maps in use to-day. They 
first appeared in print as far as I can find, upon Holland’s Map of 
Lower Canada of 1798, then on Bouchette of 1815, and thenceforward 
on all maps down to this day. On many of the earlier maps, such as 
Bouchette, Wyld and others, a part of the Indian names are retained, 
but latterly they have disappeared. 
I have been able to see but few general maps of the region be- 
tween 1783 and 1798. The principal one is the Kitchin Map of 1794, 
which marks the boundary according to the old Nova Scotia idea from 
the Cobscook (Map No. 27). The special maps of Maine at this time 
are, however, of interest. Thus, Osgood Carleton’s Map of Maine of 
1793 and later makes the due north line run from the source of the 
Magaguadavic, throwing into Maine a large part of New Brunswick. 
Sotzmann’s Maps of Maine of 1797 and 1798 also run the line from 
that river. That the Magaguadavic was to be the boundary was not, 
however, the universal American opinion, for in the year 1794 Samuel 
Titcomb, an American Surveyor, explored the Chiputneticook Lakes, 
and, fixing upon the stream now called Palfrey Stream as the main 
branch, he followed it to the present Skiff Lake (which he calls North 
Lake), and thence he ran a due north line which reached the St. John 
a short distance below old Fort Meductic. The full and interesting 
diary of this survey was published in the Maine Historical Magazine 
VII., 154, though his maps? are unknown to me, and probably were not 
published. His line appears upon at least one printed map, which 
no doubt also takes its topography of the lakes from ‘him, namely 
Osgood Carleton’s Map of the District of Maine of 1802. His party 
considered this line as the due north line from the source of the St. 
Croix (although it is probable their instructions from the Governor 
of Massachusetts were simply to ascertain where such a line would 
fall), and they so informed the settlers on the St. John, creating some 

? His map of 1792, referred to in the diary, is, however, in the Massachu- 
setts Archives (‘997 Roller ’’). 
