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Surveyor of Detroit
The lands which Mr. de Sabrevois has ceded in in 1749, on the territory south of this river below the Huron Mission, opposite the mouth of the River Rouge, going down the narrows, have been laid out and squared by a line north-northeast and south-southwest in the front, and by a line which runs east-southeast and west-northwest, the winding of the narrows being the cause of the difference of these to those who are in the surroundings of the French fort. These lands have been laid out by Messrs. de Sabrevois and de Lerg, in no great regularity. I believe that they will be found fully three arpents too large.
In case an examination of these limits shall be made in the future, the defects of this survey can only be attributed to the negligence, ignorance or bad faith of the peasants who carried the poles which have been used for measuring these cessions.
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