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I was not sure of the bearing. Therefore, upon crossing this line between lots 

 eight and nine (8 and 9) at such a great distance north of the point as determined 

 by chainage, I felt justified in turning off this line somewhat, in running on to the 

 eastward for the north limit of lots eight and seven (8 and 7). I, therefore, turned 

 off 90 degrees 10 feet to the north-east from my line between lots eight and nine 

 (8 and 9) and ran this line on to intersect the east boundary of the township. At 

 the completion of this work I was ablq for the first time to get an astronomical 

 observation which showed my line between lots eight and nine (8 and 9) to be on 

 the correct bearing. My instructions read to produce the lines as run by O.L.S. 

 Paulin on astronomical bearings. Without tying up the whole party for from one 

 to three days on each line to be produced, this was impossible. It was deemed 

 advisable to produce the lines as run by O.L.S. Paulin from the pickets estab- 

 lished by him, these being well planted and the lines fairly well cut out. As soon 

 as possible, in every case, after doing this, the lines were checked by an astrono- 

 mical observation, but as above stated on the work described to date, this was im- 

 possible, due to the weather. 



Having ascertained that my line between lots eight and nine (8 and 9) was 

 on the correct astronomical bearing, I chained southward on it four miles from 

 the north-east angle of lot nine (9), concession (7), (and later rechained this) 

 and from this point ran eastward to intersect the east boundary of the township. 

 This line intersected the east boundary 7.77 chains north of the post planted by 

 O.L.S. MacDougall, to mark the south-west corner of the township Pearson. My 

 reason for running the front of concession four (4) off my line between lots eight 

 and nine (8 and 9) was as follows: I was five miles from the west boundary of 

 the township of Fraleigh and it was out of the question to run this line from that 

 boundary without tying up the whole party for several days. Furthermore, I was 

 not certain of finding posts on that boundary when I did get there. As proved by 

 subsequent work — there were no posts there. I knew my line between lots eight 

 and nine (8 and 9) to be on a correct astronomical bearing, and I also knew by 

 the same observation that the front of concession eight (8) (as produced from 

 O.L.S. Paulin) was on the correct bearing. I, therefore, ran the front of con- 

 cession four (4) as above described. Considering this to be the very best result 

 that could be obtained from the information at hand. Knowing that O.L.S. 

 Paulin's line for the front of concession seven (7) was so far from being on the 

 correct bearing and not having run the front of concession six (6), it seemed far 

 from correct to assume that this latter line would even approximate the correct 

 bearing, and hence running the lines for the front of concessions four and five 

 (4 and 5) from a point on the east boundary of the township, one and two miles 

 south from the intersection of the front of concession six (6) with that line, would 

 be not nearly as accurate as the way I actually did run them on the ground. 



I ran the front of concession five (5) off my line between lots eight and nine 

 (8 and 9) at the proper chainage of three miles south from the north-east angle 

 of lot nine (9), concession seven (7), as shown on my field notes. These lines 

 for the front of the four and five (4 and 5) concessions were again checked by 

 astronomical observations. 



The east limit of lot eleven (11), concession six (6), had been run by O.L.S. 

 Paulin, but no post had heen planted for the south-east angle of said lot. I 

 then chained, having also to cut out, this line from the north-east angle of the said 

 lot (as shown on my field notes) as there was no post there. I used pickets 

 planted by said O.L.S. Paulin and produced line south to intersect my line for 



