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down the South Beach, but the remainder is shewn as a mere sand 
Mat. There is no detail as to the fresh-water pond? or the individual 
dunes. 
Another British Admiralty chart of Sable Island, dated 1770, ap- 
peared as Chart 8 in Robert Sayer's North American Pilot of 1779. 
These charts were drawn from original surveys by James Cook, Mi- 
chael Lane, Surveyors, Joseph Gilbert, and other officers in the King's 
Service, and they were engraved by Thomas Jeffreys, and printed by 
R. Sayer and J. Bennett. Although this Sayer chart was, like the 
Des Barres chart, an official British Admiralty chart and was pub- 
lished in a volume of the same year as the second issue of the Des Bar- 
res chart, and although there is no indication of the identity of the 
surveyor of the Sayer chart, yet the two charts were undoubtedly 
based on two distinct and independent surveys. The Sayer chart is 
on the scale about 3 miles to the inch. The outline of the island is 
the same flat crescent, like that shown by Des Barres, and the length 
is "about 30 Miles, in Breadth across the Pond, Meadow and upland 
a Mile;" but the details are quite different. There is no indication 
of the height of the sand dunes, and the local place-names differ. The 
opening from the salt lake through the North Ridge has been drifted 
over and appears as a sand flat, marked, "The Place to Dig for a 
Harbour." Instead there is an opening through the South Beach at 
the western end of the salt lake. The South Beach is shown with a 
line of dunes running for six miles from the east end, then for the rest of 
its length it is shown as a mere sand flat with a few remnants of dunes. 
This chart lacks the detail of the location of the fresh-water ponds 
and the numerous ridges of dunes such as appears on the Des Barres 
chart. 
Superintendent James Morris, in 1801, estimated one hill at the 
east end to be 200 feet high and others to be 150 feet high. 
Lieut. Burton, in 1808, made a survey of the island when it was pro- 
posed to place a ligiithouse there. He reported the island to lie 30 
miles in length and 2 miles in breadth, with hills from 150 to 200 feet, 
beginning at the west end, and attaining tluir greatest elevation at 
Mount Knight, its eastern extremity. 
Wiien, in 1802, the position for the main station was chosen, it was 
one remarkably sheltered among the sand hills, 5 miles from the \Yest 
End. 
"In 1S14 the SupcriiitciKlciiI, Mr. Ihulstin, wrote the tioveniinent, 
that owing to the nipid nianner in which the island was bi-ing washed 
