[&ANoNG] BOUNDARIES OF NEW BRUNSWICK 421 
tions and improvements as a convenient division of the province on 
which to base a description of its parts in detail. 
Although the original county lines were established in 1785, no 
attempt was made to survey and mark out any of them until 1832, a 
La illustrate 
the Aistory of 
its County Lines 

Map No. 38. To illustrate the history of county lines. Dates on county lines 
are years of their establishment, and dates in brackets years they were 
run and marked. 
fact to be kept in mind in interpreting the peculiarities of all maps of 
the province prior to that date. Nor does any printed map of the 
province, known to me, attempt to mark the county and parish 
boundaries, until Bouchette’s map of 1831 and Baillie’s of 1832. 
After 1832 the various lines were run from time to time as recorded 
on the accompanying map (No. 38). These surveys were traverses made 
with much care, and the resultant maps, all upon a large scale are in the 
