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the Mill Pond and its outlet were the "little cove or river" named in the first grant.

A good deal may be said for the argument of Donaldson and Ansley that the description of the eastern line of the second grant, which was to run northerly "160 chains, or until it meets the Kennebecasis," is utterly incongruous when that line as laid down in Samuel Peabody's survey, does not reach the Kennebecasis by three and a half miles. "No one," say the committee, "let alone a surveyor with a plan before him and adopting their Red Head, could have made use of the expression 160 chains, or until it meets the Kennebecasis." This point will be better appreciated by again referring to the map.

In concluding this article we may note the following points:

1. That the government officials at Halifax had no proper conception of the value of the lands at the time the two grants were made.

2. That great carelessness is displayed in the manner the grants were issued, particularly in the tact that no plans were attached to either grant.

3. That the bounds were very inadequately described.

4. That it could never have been the intention of government to bestow 9,000 acres when but 4,000 are mentioned in the grants.

5. That nevertheless, Simonds, White and Hazen considered the great marsh east of the city to be included in their grants up to the time the Loyalists arrived.

All this, however, does not answer the question "Where is Red Head?"—that is the Red Head intended by the Crown land authorities of Nova Scotia in the two grants. Perhaps the question will always