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We commenced at Lake St. Francis and worked northerly and with the aid 

 of copies of Fletcher's plan and a copy of his field notes furnished Mr. Mercier 

 we had no difficulty in following the line and finding all the monuments Fletcher 

 planted in 1860, except three. We found that Fletcher had divided the line 

 into three parts, which he called Novelle Longueuil, Newton and Rigaud, and 

 gave separate chainages for each part, and we followed the same plan so as to 

 be able, if necessary, to locate missing monuments or other features the more 

 easily from his chainage. We found that he had marked the divisions between 

 these parts or sections as well as each end of the line by a larger monument than 

 generally used along the line, they being 9" x 13" dressed 27" at top. The league 

 or mile monuments were 6" x 9" dressed 24" and the deflection or angle monu- 

 ments were triangular about eight inches on each side dressed 24", all cut stones 

 and set about three or four feet in the ground. A detailed description of each 

 monument is given later. 



Monument No. 38A 

 Ontario-Quebec Boundary. 



We found the country through which the line runs generally cleared and 

 cultivated, there being only a few patches of bush, mostly second growth, and 

 that the line was mostly fenced, generally barbed wire, or had a ditch on it in 

 accordance with French practice. 



We ran the line through from the south to north, chaining and taking notes 

 as we went, all being shown in the foregoing field notes. 



The deflection monument at chainage 674+30 from Lake St. Francis No. 

 19, being in Concession VII Lancaster Township, was found lying on the side of 

 a ditch in a field used for pasturage this season, we decided to move it to the 

 southerly side of the Canadian Pacific Railway right of way, main line from 

 Smith's Falls to Montreal, a distance of 5.93 chains, and so be out of the way 

 for cultivation of the field, and not be liable to damage or destruction. By doing 

 this we moved the actual line where the monument is built into Ontario less than 



