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BULLETIN 7 OF THK NATURAL HISTORY SOCIETY 
the time. But these maps were merely sketches, often extremely 
crude, and it was not until the surveys of DesBarres for his 
famous “Atlantic Neptune’’ about 1770, that an approximately 
correct outline appears. The first survey for cadastral purposes 
was made for the Crown Land Office in 1820 by Deputy Sur- 
veyor West, whose large-scale map, corrected and extended by 
many land-surveys since made, is the basis for all of our present 
maps, excepting only the Admiralty charts. A new Admiralty sur- 
vey was made in 1838 on which are based all the modern charts. 
But no published map down to the present, aside from the very 
small-scale and generalized surface geology map, and no plan or 
map in the Crown Land Office, has attempted to show the curious 
physical features of the island. 
Such a map, however, has been made by Dr. J. Orne Green of 
Boston, who has visited the Island for many years past for sport 
and health and who has made some study of its geography and 
natural history. This map, by his kind permission, I have used 
along with other data,* in compiling the map accompanying this 
paper. 
Of scientific study the island has had very little. Some gen- 
eral references to its characteristics occur in local books, but the 
* In compiling the .accompanying map, I have used the plans in the 
Crown Land Office, the Admiralty charts, (especially the large-scale chart 
showing Miscou Harbor and surroundings), Dr. Green’s map, sketches 
of my own, (notably in the outlines of the upland), and traverse surveys 
made by myself of the outline of Grande Plaine, and of Lake Chenire 
and Big Lake. During my three-weeks visit to the Island in August- 
September, 1905, I was able to examine every part of the shore except the 
part between Birch Point and the Mai Baie North Gully, and all of the 
important parts of the anterior of the Island except the eastern edge of 
the principal upland tract — that from Lake Chenr e south to Miscou 
Harbor, which part may be somewhat inaccurate. The geography of the 
remainder of the island is of course only approximately correct, and 
owing to the failure of the accessible data to accord with one another I 
have had to compromise and “fudge’’ somewhat. This is notably the 
case in the vicinity of Cowans Lake and its relations with the Queue of 
Big Lake. Further I suspect the Crown Land plans I follow for Mai Bare 
South are in error, and it should be made considerably larger. In order 
not to interfere with the clearness of the map for physiographic purposes 
I have omitted most of the names of the less important lakes and other 
places, as well as all data and names connected with settlement. These 
are, however, given in full on another map of the same sca’e accompanying 
my “Founding of Miscou” mentioned on the next page. 
