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devastate Napan and even Black River, though possibly the fires 
south of the river originated separately. It is this special fire 
which is also called the Great Fire of Miramichi. If we keep in 
mind this double use of the name Great Fire, the subject of the 
limits become fairly plain. 
91. On a New Contour Map of New Brunswick. 
Read March 7, 1905. 
Up to the present time no contour map of the Province has 
been published. Nor, indeed, has any portion of it been thus 
mapped, excepting only the peninsula between Oak Bay and the 
St. Croix, which is mapped, with contours, on a United States 
chart, (see Note 14), the dower St. John valley which is thus 
represented on a crude steamboat circular, and certain small 
sections of interior New Brunswick thus mapped in the present 
volume of this Bulletin (pp. 216, 334). Also a single 200 of 220 
foot contour is represented upon the Surface Geology maps. But 
otherwise vertical topography is shown on our published maps 
only by occasional and approximate hachures. Of manuscript 
maps I know but two showing contours,— *-Owen’s fine map of 
1841-43, showing the St. John from its mouth to Springhill, and 
a map of the Province which Colonel Maunsell tells me he made 
some years ago and sent with a report to the Militia De- 
partment at Ottawa. The latter map, I learn on inquiry at the 
Department, is in its possession, though its authorship is un- 
known, while the Report cannot be found. At length, however, 
the first published contour map of the Province has appeared. It 
is in the latest volume of the Transactions of the Royal Society 
of Canada (Vol. X., 1904), illustrating a paper of my own upon 
the causes determining the distribution of settlements in New 
Brunswick. It is on the scale of sixteen miles to an inch, and the 
contour intervals are 100 feet. It is constructed (a) from alt 
accessible railway levels, (b) from all barometric measurements 
that have been published, (c) from my own observations in 
various parts of the Province, (d) from probabilities based on the 
