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tion, from the day when our ])rovince was but an unknown area of an 

 undiscovered western sea down to our own times. In order to keep the 

 work within manageable hmits, and not to obscure the more important 

 jnatters by an accumulation of those of lesser moment, T have had to 

 treat each period far from fully, and to keep strictly to Cartography, 

 resisting every temptation to add other geographical material. There is 

 not one of the periods which would not under other circumstances repay 

 nearly as full treatment as I have given to the whole. I have no doubt 

 that in the future the subject will receive such treatment ; but no matter 

 hovv much more fully and how much better my successors may elaborate 

 it, to me at least belongs the joy of having opened it up. In particular, 

 the period of the sixth and seventh types will repay far more detailed 

 study, and I am aware that in these my work is weaker than in the 

 earlier ones. There must be many published maps of tlie last hundred 

 years which I have missed, and. were these accessible, there exists in the 

 Crown Land office at Fredericton the materials for working out in the 

 minutest and surest fashion not only the evolution of our Cartography, 

 but indeed of our entire geographical histor}^ for the past hundred and fif- 

 teen years. Moreover, there are other topics which I have left unsolved, not 

 out of consideration for future students, but because I have been utterly 

 unable to solve them. Thus, 1 may mention the many obscure points in 

 the nomenclature of the maps which show Cartier's voyages, the source 

 of the nomenclature of the Knglish Pilot map of 1702, the source of 

 DesBarres's information for his map of the interior of 1780, the true origin 

 of the Munro-Peachey type ; and there are many minor ones. Further- 

 more, there must be most valuable material in the British Museum and 

 Public Eecord office which my short visits to those places did not disclose, 

 and also in the Archives of Paris, which I have not myself seen. Probably, 

 too, there is something in the Crown Land offices of Nova Scotia and 

 Quebec, which I have not examined. Attempts to gain information about 

 them from correspondence have not been satisfactory. In fine, I have but 

 mapped out the broader outlines of this subject ; the details still remain to 

 be filled in. 



