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work in Gaspe Bay and in the Island of Anticosti was progressing satisfactorily. At both places astronomical observations for ascertaining latitudes and longi- tudes were made and meteorological journals kept.

The Magdalene Islands were surveyed by Holland and his assistant, Lieu- tenant Frederick Haldimand, in 1765.

On November 10, 1764, Captain Holland applied for a parcel of land in Upper Town, Quebec, between the Castle of St. Louis and the Battery Royal near Cape Diamond, a plot of which was made, bearing date of June 8, 1765. The petition was granted on March 12, 1766, one of the conditions being an annual rental of two shillings. For some reason Holland never secured this valuable property during his lifetime and his heirs in 1838 failed to secure recompense for the land, which had been taken and occupied for military purposes. A battery of five guns had been constructed upon it before 1780, and part was then used as a garden.

It is probable that Holland spent some of his time in Quebec or Louisburg during 1766-67.

The Island of St. Jean was originally subdivided into sixty-seven lots, each comprising about 20,000 acres. Three of these reverted to the Imperial Govern- ment and the remaining sixty—four were disposed of by ballot, in a single day to men who had or appeared to have some claim on the Government. Surveyor- General Holland was granted Lot No. 28 on Tryon River and some of his holdings are now in the possession of his descendants.

The proprietors were supposed to colonize their lands, the settlers paying a small rental, but in most cases the rents were unpaid and the lands remained unsettled. The land question in Prince Edward Island was investigated by a Royal Commission appointed ’in 1854 and in 1860 it was finally settled by the claims of the proprietors being acquired by the Government.

From 1758 to 1773 the Island of St. Jean, or St. John, was annexed to the Province of Nova Scotia. In 1773 it was organized as a separate province and the Legislature met that year for the first time. In 1798 the name St. Johns was changed to Prince Edward Island.

Samuel Holland appears to have made the Island his home from 1764 to 1769. In the year 1767, in compliance with the terms of his grant, Holland sent to the Island a number of agriculturists and some disbanded soldiers, all of whom he provided with provisions and the means necessary to commence a settlement. He also had a small mill built for their convenience. Descendants of some of these early settlers are now prosperous men on the Island.

On November 10, 1768, the Surveyor General reports from Quebec to Right Honourable the Earl of Hillsborough, upon the progress being made, which letter is as follows:

(No. 2) Quebec, 10th November, 1768.

My Lord,

I have now the Honour of transmitting to your Lordship, a compleat Plan of the Island of Cape Britain, in which all the Soundings & inland surveys made since the last Plan was sent Home, are inserted, which I hope its Description, will meet with your Lordship’s approbation. It would have given me infinite Pleasure, if it had been in my Power to have joined Plans of the surveys now in my Possession, which begin on the west side of the Gulph of St. Lawrence to the