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others to the present. Happil}^ we know the source of Purely 's intbrnui- 

 tion. In 178(3 this river was surveyed, the distances being measured on the 

 ice, by W. Von Velden, under instructions from Survej^or-General Holland 

 of Quebec, and a copy of his map is in the Crown Land office at Frederic- 

 ton. It contains some errors, particularly in the placing of the Pata- 

 ])edia, which is made to empty where really Eed Pine brook conies out, 

 and this was copied on all maps down to Eaillie, 1832, who was the first 

 to correct it. The Miramichi, though with little detail, also appears on 

 Purdy ; and, no doubt, from surveys made in 1785 by Micheau, a sur- 

 veyor in that region, who mapped it as far as the present Boiestown. 

 The remainder of its course was, no doubt, known in a general way from 

 its use as an Indian route across the province. But from Arrowsmith 

 on through this period, the region about the head of the Tobique and 

 Nepisiguit is a blank, and it only appears gradually in the next period. 



In 1784, New Brunswick was set off from Nova Scotia, and from 

 that time on possessed a Crown Land office, Survej-or-Cleneral and sur- 

 veyors of her own. An immense impetus was thereby given to the 

 exploration of New Brunswick. 



After 1783 the Maine-New Brunswick boundary was in dispute until 

 1842, and the surveys and commissions in connection with attempts to- 

 sottle it prodviced a great abundance of maps of that region. There had 

 been a rough survey of the St. Croix as early as 1785, and there are 

 manuscript plans of parts of it dated 178(J and 1792 in the Massachusetts 

 ai'chives, but the first thorough surve}^, and the one which forms the basis 

 for all subsequent maps, even to the present, is that made of the St. Croix 

 and Magaguadavic rivers in 1796 to 1798, under authority of the Bound- 

 arv Commissioners.' A cop}" of this map appears on Holland's map of 

 Lower Canada of about 1800. Its eftects appear also on Carleton's map 

 of Maine of 1802, where also is clearly shown an interesting survey by 

 the American Surveyor Titcomb, who, in 1794, being ordered to run a 

 north line from the source of the St. Croix to the St. John, ascended 

 Palfrey brook to Skiiï lake, and ran from there a line which met the St. 

 John near Old Fort Meductic. Happily an account of this survey has 

 also been preserved.- 



The first British printed map to use the boundary surveys wa& 

 Purdy's "(Jabotia," 1814, a beautifully engraved map, which is the very 

 best of New Brunswick up to that time. Purdy was a rather celebrated 

 English map-maker of high repute early in this century,' and, of course, 



1 The liekl books and diaries of the surveyors of the Magaguadavic are in tlie 

 possession of Rev. W. O. Raynnond, St. John. 



-In Maine Historical Magazine. VII., 1.54. Also, Bangor Historical Magazine, 

 II., 91. 



■^ A full accouiU of him may be found in the Dictionary of National Biography. 



