47 settlers will flash in the Province from all quarters of America, and will make work enough for surveyors. By another letter, it seems my friend, Smith, will bring out another code of laws, and Sir Guy will have full instructions to improve the Province and encourage new settlers; so I hope Detroit will have soon another appearance, and the most likely spot to find a likely climate. My son, Jack, is sailing with Capt. Bouchetteto the to visit his relations; my son, Henry, has exchanged from half-pay, to the 70th Regiment , with Lieut. Findley in the 44th Regiment by paying the difference. By a fall out of my cariole, I have hurt my head and eyes so much that I scrawled this in much pain, so you must excuse me, and believe me, with the greatest sincerity. My dear Sir, Your most obedient humble Servant and friend, SAMUEL HOLLAND . To Philip Frey , Detroit . Surveyor- General's Office, Quebec . 7th July, 1788. Sir:—It being the command of his Excellency the Governor - General , that the American Loyalists and others, admitted to become citizens of this Province, have portions of lands assigned to them with dispatch and with as little trouble and expense to themselves as possible, notice is hereby given that Mr. William Chewett at . Francis, and Mr. Patrick McNiff at the Ottawa and Grand River , Mr. James and Hugh McDonell at the vacant lands between Elizabeth- town and Pittsburgh, Mr. Alexander Aitken at Kingston and Toronto , and Mr. Philip Frey at and Detroit , all Deputy Surveyors , and now on the business of surveying at or near the respective places aforementioned, have authority to receive claims and applications for the purposes above mentioned, to be transmitted to me for his Lordship's approbation; have orders from this office to ascertain to the settlers their respective apportionments in either of the Districts of Luneburg, Mecklenburg, Nassau, or Hesse. Mr. Philip Frey , Signed JOHN COLLINS, D.S.G. Deputy -Surveyor , . Quebec , 31st July, 1788. » I enclose you a copy of a late Report in Council on the business of Surveys, and in furtherance of that economy that ought to be considered by officers of the Crown, and especially in our Department, in which the expenditures have been so considerable, I add that you will use your directions in carrying your field work to no greater extent than will be necessary for your returning such a proportion as will enable the Surveyor- General to issue out of it returns for specific quan¬ tities in future directed to be granted, and suffice for the Patentee's laying out his grant with competent certainty, equal safety to himself and the Crown. It is under this idea that the actual survey of only one line along the water directed to be actually run from and to fixed boundaries, except when numbers of settlers ready to begin to work, and in danger from their want of knowledge in surveys of commencing in concession, may make it requisite to give the first concession a road, or rather the second concession a front line, with so much of the exterior side lines of the Township and the breadth of the subdivisions of the first concessions as will guide those grantees in extending the side lines of their own lots to the road in the rear of that concession, dividing it from the second as in the first, one grant will thus be made to connect with the other prior in time. There must be the due care to ascertain the two capital stations for the breadth of the Township, and to blaze healthy trees for the purpose; several of them should be distinguished by marks, and their bearing and distances from the precise spot. A blaze through the rind and lettered, cut into the wood by such an instrument as is used by coopers in marking casks, I am told has been opened or boxed after eight years and shewn the letters perfectly fresh and legible. JOHN COLLINS . Philip Frey , Esq. Practically all of the surveys made in Canada between 1784 and 1792 were along the St. Lawrence and the Rivers and along the shore of Lake Ontario , and generally speaking only the front concession was laid out at first for the settlers. Concessions in the rear of the first were surveyed as demanded by settlers.