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l I ' < 3 E Gesner 1846: At one site on the mainland opposite Hog Island: It “a f , ’the sea has flowed in among” t.he birches'. I] S” ,1“ Gray 1793; ‘biack birch’ian element of the hardwood forest]. // 8 ['4 S «.‘lkflfi: / . V??? \ J /l Morris 1769: 'black, thte and yellow birch'felements of the forest].

Palmer 1815: 'some birch'.

Curtis 1775: 'birch'[an element of the forest],

\ Chappell 1778: ’sawing b/ack birch'. Gesner 184s: \ 'birch overun by the drifting sands’.

& 1' {9’1 \\ / Land Commission 1875: /’

[Hughes] c. 1880-1900.

/ \ 1 . 'birch’: along the O‘Leary A: L/ , . \ ,l‘ ’a block of wilderness land' of ’birch and beech'. Stewart 1831' ' K , \ J i I‘ I , I - I , a (. _ \ , . . . / Lot 4 7, black blrch [an element Road before settlement. 1 ’ J , 5-H ~ . (a ‘, -. Kit. ‘. a heavy growth of beech and black bIrch. f of the hardwood forest].

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1 jiA (fl \‘ (“fa/2 [ l ”r “\ZR] MacGregor 1828: /

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Ready 1899: (:3 W ‘ _ W4 k? 43%: blrch [an element of the forest], Wm/ , \

is ’birch': an element ,%/’/ ‘ “1 1’ \ ‘ . of the forest of Lot 20. C ( i ’\ ”webs L ./ fl \\\ i )3 I _ xJ \ 5g Gesner 1846. . / . 771C? i fo\ Flaw l ’birch’: formerly an element ,// f “ / / *’ / J" 9‘ ,/ of the hardwood forest. ”/6 (7/ ' % bi> Anon.1762: /I /// / ,J , ,/ [313ml 1892:. . (Patterson 1770- \ , ’East Point: the lands B ai n 1868-1884: // /{ DUO/7955 [In] ”if? .1 'black and white birch' 3:,va - ] thickly covered with . - - . . . . // (,9. grand Old forest, " H ['P’mC'Pal' trees I" the Key If a small species of birch'. [At] Sprlngfleld. yellow and white birch l// i area of Charlottetown] m [elements of the hardwood forest]. ,/ . VV NE / Harrls c.1885: . Bsfi/"a (‘3; 4K: wk x. 5., Marryat 1829: / [white] bIrch {along the river]. \ K. I, ,. / ”/9 flfl WW) fl [somewhere along the coast [Bain] 1883: // Bain 1868-1884: ’massive birches', ’ ‘~ A: . I .1 ‘: "V J ,_ O’LO’ 561‘ made use °’7 "”9 * a . 1‘, 8’ bark of the blrch tree'. At ’E/liot’s': ’birch’ [an element of the forest]. _ . iv " i MacGregor 1323- (” Chappell 1798 1815' ‘ V 'birch' [a rinci al tree]. ‘71 ’5“ obtained both yellow and white birch in p p s the Charlottetown area and ’across the water'. Selkirk 1803: , [fizfll e/low birch as an element of the hardwood forest: / ' M9 €01» a y , . . . / / fl sf“ , ‘bIrch‘ - on the 'north Side of Pornt PrIm’; L, ’ ‘f. __// ’birch’ - along the 'fulther palt’ of the / (Rig ' , 87/ ’portage’ across Point Prim; Selkirk 1803: ’birch, black and yellow, on the south side of Pinette River. 'bI’Ch' [an Heme"! 0’ the

forest] ’above the bank’.

’birch' on the site of ’a great fire '.

FIGURE 1-9. The geographically-Iocatable references to birch species in the records of the British period.