Morning journal and courier., 1889-07-30
CouneetIcuI,s New map.

The typographical survey, directed by the legislature, is promptly going on, under Ma jor Powell and the United States Geological and Geographical survey; and it will be rich ly worth the $25, 900 appropriated for the commission that overlooks it. The Hart ford Times says: "For, tho unpleasant truth
 Is that we have no thorough survey of our State, and no good map-and what is more,
 nobody knows, within 300 square miles, how
 ses sustained by the settlement of our west ern and eastern boundaries are inconsidera-
 ble; but, aside from these, nobody knows
 the exact area of the State. The New York
 boundary line is not even yet definitely ad- justsd, and the survey now going on will de-
 termine that, among other things. The commissioners, Professor William H. Brewer of Yale college, Rev. James Fl. Chapin of Eeriden. and John w. Bacon. the Danbury engineer, are exceptionally well qualified for their duties, both by taste and by education. The practically important part of the work will be the typographical information afforded by the accurate map which is to fol- | low. It will show not only the contours of the State, and settle all disputed questions as
  | railroad, lake and river; indeed, every con- siderable brook. It will show the drainage surface of each stream, and enable towns to know accurately much that they now can | get only by special and expensive local sur. veys, before going into drainage and sewer work.
 The highest part of the State was taken iu hand frst-the commissioners and the trian | gulators first taking hold of Litch6eld II Tha Gkoko fa 6vo VI od int tyUa | ty-five districts, of about 200 square miles esoh-cslled sheets for triangulation. 8. s Gannett, brother of the chief topographer oi | the coast survey, is in charge of this part oi | the work. The Cornwall sheet," including \ the northwest corner of the State, Is handled | by E. w. Natter and his assistants. They have settled the great and burning question How high is the highest land in Connecti- cuti and the answer is, Bear Mountain, in Salisbury, Is .2,355 feet above tidewater | Other heights range from 1 1,600 to 2,000 feet but outside of Salisbury the highest point probably, is Mohawk mountain in Cornwall | which we think is about l, zoo feet; though | Norfolk and Goshen come close to 1t. The | Hillhurst at Norfolk stands on an elevation of l, 400 feet. That is equal to the Bethle- | hem elevations in the White Mountains. After the triangulation is completed, the ! topoRraphers take hold. It is expected that half of the State will be completed by Thanksgiving; and then the ofice-work fol the winter will be taken up, and the field work will be finished next year.
 The government officers have just finished
 surveys of Massachusetts and Rhode Island
 and this was the right opportunity for Con. | necticut. The field notes of the coast sur. | vey's work, made many years ago, and oi which the fixed stsffs, towers and standards remain, arc to be used to some extent in the present survey. It is thought the whole work will be finished, map and all, in two years from the start; or, say, about the 1st of June, 1891.
 The actual area of the State will probably come pretty near 5000 square miles,"