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description of the bounds inadequate, but the name of Richard Simonds is inserted in it (presumably on account of his having been one of the original applicants) although he died more than eight months before the grant was issued. It will also be noticed that in the description of the grant the bounds are said to begin "at a point of upland in front of his house," which is decidedly indefinite seeing that three persons are named in the grant.

According to Messrs. Donaldson and Ansley the words "running east till it meets with a little cove or river," meant following the shore eastward to the Mill Pond and thence to the first elevation or point that might be called "a red head"—thence to run northerly to the Kennebecasis. According to the interpretation of Hazen, Simonds and White, the line was to run due east (crossing the flats and the small arm of the sea extending towards the mill pond) thence along the upper bound of Parr Town, now Union Street, to the Marsh Creek and Courtenay Bay, thence along the shore to Red Head on the east side of the cove, or bay.

Donaldson and Ansley contended it was preposterous to call Courtenay Bay a "cove," and they urged that it could never have been intended to leap over an arm of the sea and to cross a peninsula neither of which are even mentioned in the grant.

To this objection the heirs of Hazen, Simonds and White replied: That while the description was meagre, and perhaps inadequate, it could be very fairly applied to their Red Head on the east side of Courtenay Bay, and had been so understood both by the original patentees and by the Surveyor General of Nova Scotia.

In the second grant of 2,000 acres to James Simonds, dated May 1, 1770, the description read as follows: