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I have raentioned, though its collection of reproductions is very complete. 

 The Library of the Massachusetts Historical Society also includes 

 some valuable maps and other geographical records, including some 

 among the Parkman manuscripts, and all of these the librarian, Dr. 

 Green, has been ever ready to allow me to use freely. I have made some 

 use of the Astor and Lenox libraries in New York, and of the Library 

 of Congress at Washington, and think I have seen most that is valuable 

 to this subject in them, but in my few visits to the British Museum and 

 the Public Record office, I was able to examine ])ut a small part of the 

 treasures they possess for the student of our cartography. 



Upon Cartography in the abstract, map construction, its relations to 

 improvements in navigation, taking of latitudes and longitudes, etc., I 

 have used but few works. There is valuable matter on this subject in 

 Thacher's "Continent of America," and in Dawson's "Voyages of the 

 Cabots." 



Upon the History of Cartography, Judge Daly's " Early History of 

 Cartography " is important, as are the articles " Map " and '• Geogi-aphy" 

 in the Encyclopaedia Britannica, and Kohl's Smithsonian Lecture, as well 

 as parts of his " Discovery of the East Coast of Maine," for both of which 

 works my admiration steadily grows ; and there are references to other 

 works in the books of Winsor and Harrisse, bj" whose aid the subject 

 may be fully traced. There is a " Histoire de la Cartographie et de 

 l'arpentage sous le r(5gime français,'' b}' J. E. Roy, which I have not seen. 

 Some of the memoirs to accompany' the great maps published in the last 

 century, incidentall}^ give much valuable information upon the different 

 phases of cartography. A work, " America, its Geographical History," 

 by D. W. B. Scaife. evidently relating to this subject, and the more recent 

 "Dawn of Modern Geography," by Beazley, London, 1897, I have not 

 seen. 



Coming now to the works of authority upon our cartography in 

 particular, there are first of all the books b}' Winsor, Harrisse and Kohl, 

 which are too well known to require description. Mr. Winsor's most 

 important book is, of course, his great " America ;" Harrisse's is his 

 " Discovery of America," though others are also important. Kohl's " Dis- 

 covery of the East Coast of Maine '" nearly exhausts the subject for that 

 region. Winsor's account of the Kohl Collection of Maps at Washington 

 is also of use. All of these works deal more especially with the earlier 

 periods, those of Kohl and Harrisse ending some time before the close of 

 the sixteenth century ; and Winsor, also, is fullest on the earlier periods, 

 and for New Brunswick is of almost no aid for the three later periods. 



On Canadian Cartography in particular, while there are few or no 

 works relating to it as such, nevertheless many papers contain very 

 scholarly cartographical descriptions and discussions, such as those by 

 Patterson, Howley, Dawson and others. There are valuable notes upon 



