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Marine, " Plan du Port de la Riviere 8t. John," but it has little value. 

 The " Plan de L'Isthme de L'Acadie," of the same year, already referred 

 to, belongs to the same series. 



So far, for the sake of considering- all of Morris's work together, I have 

 passed over his survey at the head of the Bay of Fundy. Charles Mori is, 

 ;an officer in the British service, was afterwards Surveyor-Genei-al of Nova 

 Scotia. For both the intrinsic importance, as well as the merit of the 

 work he did for our early cartography, he must stand as one of the fore- 

 most of onr map-makers. He died in 1781 and was succeeded in office by 

 his son of the same name. His first surveys wei-e of the region about 

 the head of the Bay of Fundy, and his maps are preserved in the British 

 Museum. These maps excited the admiration of Green, who speaks of 

 his -'accurate surveys of 1748 and 1749," and of "another survey of Mr. 

 Morris made in the years 1751 and 1752, with no less accui-acy than the 

 former." These surveys wei"e probably used by Bellin tocoi-rect his later 

 maps, as I have already mentioned. They Avere. of course, used by 

 Morris in his remarkable map of the Northern English Colonies, of 1749, 

 recently published in •' Captain Pote's Journal," from the original MS. 

 preserved in the Lenox library. This map is remarkable for its inde- 

 pendence of most of those of the time, and one wonders whether George 

 Mitchell's survej^ may not be the original for some parts, such as the St. 

 John, which is unlike any map of that river known to me. The French 

 influence, however, is evident in places, such as L'Etang ; and Misshapac 

 suggest Bellin's map of 1744. Probably Passamaquoddy is but a poor 

 xîopy of the Blackmore-Southack type, and 1 do not know the original of 

 the North Shore, but he has evidentl}^ used the same source as Green in 

 his 1755 map. Without doubt, also, Morris is the maker of the map accom- 

 panying Monckton's journal, preserved in the British Museum, of his 

 expedition on the St. .John in 175S. one of the most valuable of all existent 

 maps of any part of jS'ew Brunswick. (See Fig. 37.) A Major Morris, 

 -doubtless Charles Morris, was in command of the post at the mouth of 

 the St. John in that year. This is not only the first map we possess 

 which shows the lower St. John upon a fair scale and with fair accuracy, 

 but it is the only one we possess which marks the French settlements in 

 that region. It also gives us at least a part of the French place nomen- 

 clature, and shows that a number of our names, seemingly of English 

 origin, are really translations from the French, as I have traced in my 

 " Place-Nomenclature." In the beauty and accuracj^ of this map we 

 have a distinct suggestion of Morris, and, as well, in some of its topo- 

 graphical features it is not unlike some of his later maps. In 17<»5 he had 

 surveyed the whole river and the coast to Passamaquoddy, and his maps, 

 vipon a very large scale, exist in man}- copies with various later additions 

 in the British Museum and the Public Record office, and in the Public 

 Eecord office is a report by him on his surveys of the St. John and Passa- 



