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are of a nature to ensure the most minute correctness and are not to be compared to any sets of instruments which may be found in this country calculated for general geographic purposes.
Having most seriously reflected on the various branches of the service which comprise my professional duties it appears incumbent on me to observe that the fixing and establishing the Latitude and Longitude of St. Regis or more properly speaking the mathematical point where the parallel of the 45th degree of North latitude intersects the River Cateraquy or Iriquois is of primary importance, and common to both Commissions; therefore cannot I humbly conceive be settled but by a joint meeting of the Commissioners under the 5 6 & 7th Articles of the Treaty of Ghent, or by the Surveyors employed under the Commissioners consequently if you find it expedient to proceed on the survey from St Regis westward, that place can only be considered as a temporary point of departure, which may ultimately