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the United States Geological Survey, we have come into possession of a 

 large amount of valuable data relating to the 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 contained 

 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 S900, or so much as may be necessary, to pa}' 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 geographically correct. Having done this, we can fill 

 in the topography from the sheets of the Geological Survey so far as com- 

 pleted. 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 " tying 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 township on which the blazed lines or boundary marks have not 

 been obliterated. 



William F. Fox, 



Supt. of State Forests. 

 Albany, N. Y., December 31, 1904. 



