48 The Coopers' marking iron has been used by Land Surveyors on Crown surveys from the time of Holland and Collins to the present time. Quebec , 31st January, 1791. Sir,—In answer to yours of the 28th inst., requiring me to furnish the Land Committee with a list of the instruments remaining in the Land Surveying Office and in the hands of the several Deputy Surveyors , I have to inform you that, as no allowance of instruments has ever been made to the Land Surveyor- General of the Province of Quebec , of course, there are no instruments appertaining to his office, those made use of in his department being the private property either of himself or of his deputies, and of the number in their possession I can only mention such as were commissioned out from London by me about six years ago, and sent me by Messrs. Watson and Keshleigh being six of the best improved horizontal theodolites, for the following gentlemen, viz.: Mr. O'Hara , at Gaspe; Mr. Yondevenlden , ; Mr. McCarthy , St . Thomas , P.Q. ; Mr. Frey , Detroit ; Mr. Aitkins , Kingston , and one for my son, grooved with cross-levels. Three more were likewise sent out by me when in England two years ago, and are at present in the hands of Mr. Depincier , Mr. Pennoyer , and Mr. Bedard . The whole of these instruments have circular protractors of the same divisions and dimensions of the instruments, with spar bar needles, agate cap'd, and I have now ordered out three more for Messrs. B. Germain , Bouchette , and Plamondon. Exclusive of these, there are many other good instruments belonging to the Deputy -Surveyors , Mr. Chewett having, at some expense, provided himself with two sets, and Messrs. William Fortune and Jones with one good one each, also Mr. J. McDonald , and I have seen some at in the hands of Messrs. Papineau and Delisle. I am not aware that any further instruments are at present wanted in my department, but that, in a great measure, depends on the nature of the work to be performed, and persons employed, as I should be loth to trust in any unskilful hands my capital set of instruments, consisting of all sorts necessary for carrying on a general survey, or making astronomical obser¬ vations, made by the best artists in London. They have already been proved by me in settling the longitudes and latitudes in the northern district of , as inserted in the Philo¬ sophical Transactions, and with which Mr. Sproule and Mr. Wright ascertained the longitude and latitude of Gaspe and Isle of Anticosti. As they were much deranged by being removed from their boxes by Mrs. Holland , to prevent their being carried off by the Americans, while she and her family were their prisoners in the year 1776, I was under the necessity of taking the principal ones with me to England , where they underwent a thorough repair in Mr. Ramsden 's hands, except a quadrant of the old construction, which was left in my office, where it has been nearly ruined. I have the honour to be, Sir, Your most obedient servant, SAMUEL HOLLAND , " Hon . Hugh Findly ." Surveyor- General. Ordered to lay on the table. The influx of the Empire Loyalists into that part of Quebec Province lying west of the began about 1783, and attained such proportions that the Government on July 24, 1788, subdivided this large undeveloped wilderness into four districts, and dispatched one or more Deputy Surveyors to conduct surveys of lands for the settlers. The four districts were as follows:— (a) Luneburg, extending from Point Beaudette to the mouth of the . (b) Mecklenberg, from the mouth of the Gananoque to the mouth of the Trent. (c) Nassau, from the Trent to Long Point, on , and (d) Hesse, all west of Nassau. The division lines between the districts were to run due north from the mouth of the Gananoque and the Trent, and from Long Point to the northern limits of His Majesty's Dominions. William Chewett was despatched to Luneburg, with headquarters at . Francis. He had been stationed there in 1786 and remained, but later he