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topography of the Adirondacks, which is available for a new 

 map. I would therefore respectfully recommend that our present 

 sheet be discarded and that a new map of the Adirondack' region 

 be made in which can be incorporated the valuable data con- 

 tained in the sheets of the recent Geological Survey. To this 

 end I would suggest that the Commission ask the Legislature to 

 appropriate at its next session the sum of $900, or so much as may 

 be necessary, to pay a competent draughtsman to make a new map 

 to be used by the engraver before printing the next edition. 



In answer it may be pointed out that the Geological Survey 

 has not yet completed all of its Adirondack sheets. But this 

 need not necessarily delay the issue of our new map. The 

 triangulation of the unsurveyed squares has been made, and this 

 will enable us to block out our map in squares that will be geo- 

 graphically correct. Having done this we can fill in the topography 

 from the sheets of the Geological Survey so far as completed. 

 The remaining squares can be filled in from such data as we have, 

 which can be corrected if necessary from time to time in later 

 editions from the sheets subsequently furnished by the Survey. 



With a map thus constructed we can overlay it with the lines 

 of the landed allotment, and the different lots or parcels can be 

 accurately located by noting on the ground where the blazed lines 

 and corners coincide with topographical points, thus "tieing up" 

 our allotment to the distinguishing features shown on the United 

 States maps. Having done this a forester, map in hand, can go 

 direct and without loss of time to the corner of any lot or town- 

 ship on which the blazed lines or boundary marks have not been 

 obliterated. WILLIAM F. FOX, 



Superintendent of State Forests. 



Albany, New York, December 31, 1904. 



