52

NOTE—This is the state of the money I received from you, and weighed in the presence of Mr. Joseph Forsyth at Kingston the 8th November, 1792,

29 H. Jois 5 grs. 145 £58 0 O 12 do 4 48 24 0 0 4 do 3 12 8 0 0 5—These I must suppose weigh I —— 10 0 0 as I paid them away at Niagara] 205

205 £100 0 0

51'/4

12)461‘/4

2)38 51/4

Loss to a poor surveyor}

as must be supposed. £1 18 5%

W. CH EWETT.

D. W. Smith, Surveyor-General.

On November 15, 1792, Holland wrote from Quebec to E. B. Littlehales respecting a claim by Col. James Gray to a point of land in the Township of Cornwall, applied for in 1784, and granted by General Haldimand about that

time.

May 31, 1793. To ALURED CLARKE——

In obedience to your Excellency’s order in council of 25th of May instant, requiring me to report what is necessary to be done for the actual ascertainment of the division line between the Provinces of Upper and Lower Canada, I beg leave humbly to report as my opinion, that the thing proper to be done for that purpose, would be to have the said division line run and marked by a Surveyor for this Province in conjunction with another Surveyor to be appointed for that purpose by the Government of the Upper Province. Which is nevertheless humbly submitted

to your Excellency’s great wisdom. ~ SAMUEL HOLLAND.

The survey of the boundary line between the eastern part of Upper Canada and Lower Canada was again the subject of correspondence, as D. W. Smith, of the Upper Province, wrote Holland on August 14, 1794, about the matter. In his reply Holland recommends that it be done in winter owing to the swampy character of the land. He had so represented it in a letter to Coffin, Secretary to Lord Dorchester, in January, 1794.

. Surveyor-General’s Office, 10 July, 1794. DEAR BOUCHE’I‘TE-—

This is the first sure opportunity that offers to send you the theodolite. Our Lord Bishop of Quebec has promised to deliver it to his Excellency Governor Simcoc, to whom I have directed it. Before you make use of the instrument you must examine whether the telescope on the vertical arch coincides with the Horizontal Index plate, by taking a bearing and fixing the sights to a distant object and then turn the cross hairs in the telescope to the same object. If they do not agree you must keep account of the error either to the right or the left and add or subtract the difference in the protraction of your work.

I have put a circular protractor in the Instrument Box as it would be troublesome to lay

your work down with a half circular one. I am dear Bouchette, Your affectionate Uncle,

SAMUEL HOLLAND. To Joseph Bouchette.