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NOTICE BY THE EDITORS.

THE information contained in this Pamphlet

relating only t'o concevons en Fief et Seigneurie^
made by the Engli/h and French Governors in
Canada, is to be confidered firaply as a feries of

références making part of the Topographical Map

of this Province, whereon thofe références would
hâve been noted had their number and extent
permitted it.

Some perfons having exprefled their furprife at
net feeing upon the faid Map the diftances and
true fituation of the places determined by a lati-

tudinal and longitudinal projeclion, the compilers
take the liberty to obferve that it is not through
inattention or inadvertency but iipon mature con-

Anfideration that thofe lines hâve been omitted.

explanation of the principles which hâve guided
them in this refpeél would be tedious and there-
fore mifplaced hère : they confine themfelves to
obferve that on Topographical Maps, laid down
by lar ge fcales fuch Imes are not requifite and
that for feveral reafons they are utterly inappli.

cable to the Map in queftion.