DISPUTED BOUNDARIES. 
.^nd urgent call for his services, would take a stream 
'for one of his boundaries, and having chained up 
.its course through the jungle, say, twentj^ fifty, or 
a hundred chains, and finding that its course so 
rfar was all in one direction, would probably stop, 
^making a memo, is his field-book of the course of 
the streams, which was connected or found on in his 
.plans by this presumed course. Now, supposing this 
stream after this surveyor had taken his last sight, 
.and departed, instead of running on the supposed 
‘Course, suddenly took a sharp turn, or a round sweep, 
dhe result, in future altercations about boundaries, 
will be easily imagined, or, as was often the case, 
ttlie stream divided itself into several branches, then 
'the question would afterwards arise, which was the 
real stream, for all these mountain streams had names, 
and were known to the natives and native headmen 
by those names. 
Two proprietors were once engaged felling large 
extents of forest ; the sound of the axes waxed nearer 
and nearer, they were fast meeting hi the small 
.portion of forest left between them. In this small 
patch of forest one day the two proprietors met by 
mutual appointment. Says one of them, “What is 
the meaning of your encroachment upon my land!” 
The other replies bj just asking his neighbour the 
very same que-stion ! “What!” says one, “I have 
'500 acres of reserve forest here.” “ Indeed!” says the 
^other, “for I have or ought to have 600, and it seems 
there is birely from one to two hunrlred acres left 
between us. I have been working by the title-deed 
plan.’’ “And so have I,” says the other. Well, after 
some consulration, it was agreed to make a reference 
to the Surveyor Generars (Jtfice, as to the rights and 
merits of the case ; in due time a surveyor came up, 
and spent many days on a careful survey of all the 
localities, and the result was eventually declared that 
«both proprietors had very considerably encroached upon 
< crown land! Here, indeed, was a nice conclusion to 
their reference! a case of “out of the frying-pan 
and into the fire. And thus it was in general ; if 
any one thought he was wronged in a small way by 
^errors in boundaries or encroachments, better far to 
submit to it or settle by arbitration, than to have a 
■re-survey. Once call in a regular surveyor to trace 
out old boundaries and settle disputes, who knows 
where it would end or what new features in the 
^question it would open out ! It might be that, while 
positively certain your neighbour had encroached on 
;your land by five or ten acres, the result of the survey 
would convey to you the intelligence that you had 
