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PART III. 



A Classified List of the Principal Maps showing New- 

 Brunswick OR Portions of it. 



In making up such a list as this, one has the greatest ditficulty in 

 deciding where to draw the line between those to be included and those 

 to be left out. The important ones which certainly belong in it grade 

 down imperceptibly into those which do not, through many whose eligi- 

 bility is doubtful on account either of inferior workmanship, erroneous 

 information, small scale, or lack of any valuable feature. "While there are 

 some maps which show only New Brunswick, in much detail and on a large 

 scale, there are others which are mere sketches to accompany some special 

 report, or small maps in school geographies or general atlases. Also on 

 others, New Brunswick is but a part of Canada or North America, or the 

 Western Hemisphere or the World, and hence may be of all degrees of 

 smallness of scale. For the earlier periods New Brunswick is invariably a 

 part of maps of very large range ; later it becomes a part of New France, 

 later a part of Acadia, and it is only in the present century that it has maps 

 devoted to it alone. How many of those showing New Brunswick are to 

 be included is, therefore, a troublesome question, and I have solved it by 

 selecting only those which seem to me to contain something really impor- 

 tant. If one sought to make a complete list of maps showing New 

 Brunswick, he would find them mounting upwards into the thousands, — 

 if he tried to make it entirely complete — perhaps into the tens of 

 thousands. 



From a bibliographical standpoint my list is very fault}'. A proper 

 catalogue, of which there are models in Baker's List of Maps of Washing- 

 ton. D.C.,in National Geographical Magazine, VI., 167, and in the recently 

 published volumes of the United States Commission appointed to inquire 

 into the Yenezuelan boundary discussion, should include a full title, date, 

 place of publication, author, publisher, size, scale, whether coloured or 

 not, mode of engraving (coi)perplate, etc.), where a copy may be found, 

 and should even give an idea of the amount of territory covered. But 

 not onh- do my notes made at many places and different times during the 

 past twelve years not afford such data, but to add them would swell too 

 much the size of this work without a compensating vahie. Hence, in 

 general, the titles are made but long enough to properly identify the 

 map, excepting where they contain some information of value, though I 

 have added the size and scale when I have these accessible. In cases 

 where the maps arc unique or rare, the place where they at present are 

 to be found is added ; when no such note is given, it is to be understood 

 that they are fairly common, and may be found in some of the principal 



