III.

The division under the direction of Major Graham has been employed

during the past season in making the following surveys, viz:

1. In prolonging the meridian of the monument at the source of the river

St. Croix.

2. In making a survey of the Little Madawaska River, a tributary to the

Aroostook, from its mouth to its source in the Madawaska Lakes.

3. In surveying the group of lakes lying northwest of the Madawaska

Lakes, known by the appellation of the Eagle Lakes, or sometimes by the

aboriginal one of the Cheaplawgan Lakes, and especially to ascertain if

those lakes, or any of them, emptied their waters into the river St.

John by any other outlet than Fish River.

4. A survey of the portion of Fish River included between the outlet of

Lake Winthrop and the river St. John.

5. A survey of the river St. John between the Grand Falls and the mouth

of the Alleguash.

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