The system of survey in the Northwest of Canada

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There would seem to be many reasons why surveyors in different eountries should be more interested in each others' work than is the ease in other professions. The prineiples and practice in other professions are very similar in different parts of the Empire, but in the case of sub-dividing the public lands for settlement, the methods followed are very different. Yet although there is always a certain interest in comparing different ways of gaining the same ends, and though the subdivision of the uninhabited parts of the Empire for settlement is a matter of the highest importance, yet individual surveyors have very little knowledge of the system pursued in other countries than their own, and possibly the following remarks (grown much longer than at first intended) on the methods carried out in Canada, may at least awaken a comparison between those methods which are a daily part of the life of Australian surveyors, and those elsewhere adopted to gain much the same end.

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