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graplier General of the United States ; was a native of Monmoutli, 

 New Jersey. 1. Boquet's Expedition against the Ohio Indians. 

 Philadelphia, 17G5., London, 1766, 4to. pp. 14 and 71 : 5 plates. 

 Two of the plates ai-e from designs by Benj. West. In French, 

 Amsterdam, 1796. "The accounts here laid before the public 

 appear to be perfectly authentic, and they are drawn up with equal 

 perspicuity and elegance." Lond. Monthly Magazine. 2. A Topo- 

 gra^Dliical Dictionary of Virginia, Pennsylvania, Maryland and North 

 Cai'olina. London, 1778, 8vo, pp. 67. 3 plates. In French, Paris, 

 1781. 3. Historical Narrative and Topographical Description of 

 Louisiana and West Florida. Philadelphia, 1784, pp. 94, &c. 



In the edition of 1813 the Preface or Advertisement varies slightly 

 from that given above. It says : " The following Notes and Gazet- 

 teer were drawn up by David William Smith, Esq., late Surveyor 

 Genera] of the Province of Upper Canada, to illustrate the !RIap of 

 that Colony, by the desire of Major-General Simcoe." It is then 

 added : "This edition, the second, has been revised and corrected to 

 the present time by Francis Gore, Esq., Lieutenant-Governor, etc., 

 (kc, to accompany the new map compiled in the Surveyor General's 

 office, and recently published under his direction." London, 1813. 

 Many particulars relating to Governor Gore are narrated in " Toronto 

 of Old." He was in England during the period of the war with the 

 United States, 1812-14. 



After the departure of Mr. D. W. Smith in 1802 the affairs of 

 the Surveyor General's department were superintended for a time by 

 Messrs. Chewett and Ridout conjointly. Then Mr. C. B. Wyatt 

 became Surveyor General. Subsequently Mr. Ridout was appointed. 

 During a portion of the incumbency of D. W. Smith, Mr. Christopher 

 Robinson, formerly of the Province of Virginia, who had borne a 

 commission in the corps of Queen's Rangers, was Deputy Surveyor 

 General. The heading of the first edition, " A General Topographical 

 Description of Upper Canada," is reduced in the second to " A Topo- 

 graphical Description," &c. The work then opens : " By an Act of 

 the British Parliament, [commonly known as the Canadian Constitu- 

 tional Act of 1791,] passed in the thirty-first year of His present 

 Majesty, [i. e. George III.,] to repeal certain parts of an Act passed 

 in the fourteenth year of His Majesty's reign, entitled, ' An Act for 

 making more effectual provision for the Government of the Province 

 of Quebec, in North America, and to make further provision for the 



