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Figurative Plan exhibiting a Birds-Eye View of the River St. Laurence and its principal tributary streams from Kingston in Upper Canada to Ance Blanc Sablon on the Labrador Coast, now the Eastern Extremity of Lower Canada, a distance of upwards of 1,200 miles



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    Map of the Province of Upper Canada, describing all the New Settlements, Townships, &c. with the Countries adjacent, from Quebec to Lake Huron

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    Map of Nova Scotia or Acadia; with the Islands of Cape Breton and St. John's, from Actual Surveys by Capt. Montresor, Engr. 1768

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    A New Map of the Province of Lower Canada, Describing all the Seigneuries, Townships, Grants of Land, &c

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