NATURAL HISTORY AND PHYSIOGRAPHY OF NEW BRUNSWICK. 
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measurement of recession. For this reason I made a new 
and careful survey of the island, using surveying compass and 
tape, and giving especial attention to the relation of the 
existent works to the edge of the upland of the island. This 
map, which I know is accurate to within a few inches, is 
presented herewith, in the full belief that future students will 
find it of service in this connection. 
The importance of establishing accurate bases for future 
measurements of coast recession became so evident to me 
during my trip along this coast in 1912 that I kept continually 
in quest of other suitable places, of which I found one that 
is nearly ideal. It is the little flat island, called locally 
Cocagne Bluff Island, which stands out very prominently 
between Cocagne and Buctouche, and which, because connected 
