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Excerpt from Report on the Adirondack and State Land Surveys to the Year 1884: With a Description of the Location of the Boundaries of the Great Land Patents, and an Account of the Variation of the Magnetic Needle in Northern New York, Between the Years 1766 and 1883, With Rainfall and Temperature Tables, and a List of the State Lan
Before leaving St. Regis, I supervised reference measurements with steel tape connecting the signal station with the iron monu ments on the United States boundary. The line from the signal station produced northward strikes the shores of the river St. Law rence to the westward of the Old stone church of the Canadian In dians on a true bearing of North 19° 05' East, to boundary monu ment no. 772 (distant 708 14611, feet), terminating at the steep clay bluff of the river bank, which at the water level is underlaid with large rough clay-stained boulders of the se-called glacial drift.
The old stone church (on the right in the view showing the ter mination of this line) is of great historical interest. In it was hung the historical bell of St. Regis, - now voiceless - once the sonorous souvenir of many wars. At the left in the view is seen a dug-out canoe made from a single log, and supplied with the ancient Iroquois sail a bush. Many of these pirogues are in use by the Indians now upon the St. Lawrence, who cross the great river in them and fish from them. They are uniformly managed by paddles, after the ancient style.
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