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States Coast Survey in 1885 (Fig. 13); fourth, one made by the present 
writer from survey in 1898, and published in the Transactions of the 
Royal Society of Canada, new series, Vol. V, section i, page 265; 
and fifth, one made by the writer from a new survey in September, 
1902, and here (Fig. 3) published for the first time. Owing to an 
inaccuracy in the compass used in the 1898 survey (a nickel-plated 
instrument found subsequently to give 5° of error in some positions} 
that map was inaccurate in details of its shape; and, in consequence, 
it is intended to be superseded by the new map herewith presented 
(Figs. 3 and 14). Repeated inquiry in various directions, locally and 
in the Maine State and the Massachusetts Land Offices, has failed to 
show the existence of any other maps of the island. 

» Champlain 
Ca 1632 

Lescarbot 
/609 ; 
Champlain 
/b/2 

Champlain 
/6/0 
Fic. 7.—All of the known early maps showing Dochet (St. Croix) Island, 
with the St: Croix River. Original size. 
Of general maps of the region on which the island is shown, the 
first is that of Champlain, dated 1610, of which the St. Croix portion 
is reproduced herewith (Fig. 7),1 and it appears again in somewhat 
different form on his maps of 1612, 1613 and of 1632 (Fig. 7), in two 
of these marked by the standard indicating a French settlement. It 


1 The Lescarbot map is from the 1609 edition of his ‘‘ Histoire de la Nou- 
velle France”: the 1610 Champlain map is from the copy in Brown’s ‘“ Gene- 
sis of the United States’; the 1612 and 1613 Champlain maps are from the 
