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CLARK'S FOOTNOTES:

1. Soon read by the settlers of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries as indicators of good land, or at least of more easily cleared land, for the hardwood stumps rotted much faster than those of pine, spruce or fir.

2. Woodland now covers large areas of the island although it is usually fenced in on

individual farms.

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Figure 4. Clark’s Figure 11, derived from Stilgenbauer (1929), showing the distribution of Stilgenbauer’s forest 'belts’, presented by Clark as prevsettlement forest-types. ‘ 1 . The one difference between the two maps appears to be due to a cartographic error in the copying of the

Stilgenbauer map. The cartographer has shifted the western boundary of the ’Central Larch Association’ about 12 kilometres to the west — in his eye-shift from one map to the other, instead of running the line to Rustico Bay, he ran it to the similarly shaped New London Bay to the west.

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