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sional surveyor who was engaged upon all of the principal sur- 
veys of these marshes, estimated in 1883 that the diked marsh 
(the undiked is comparatively insignificant in quantity) on the 
Nova Scotia side of the boundary contained 12,600 acres, while 
New Brunswick had on the Tantramar, Aulac and Misseguash, 
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Fic. 1.—Sketch map of the marsh country, showing (dotted) the distribution of 
the principal marshes, The area enclosed by the quadrangle is shown enlarged 
in fig. 2. 
19,400 acres. Of still unreclaimed bog lands (everywhere 
underlaid by marsh), there were on the LaPlanche 1,000 acres, 
on the Misseguash 3,700 acres, and on the Aulac and Tantramar 
4,000 acres. Thus there are about 40,700 acres of marsh and 
bog about Cumberland Basin, of which 25,000 acres belong to 
New Brunswick, and 15,700 acres to NovaScotia. Their approx- 
imate extent in this vicinity, and the relative amounts of wild 
