Note 2 — Chapter IX

Blazing is a term used by the backwoodsman for chopping off a portion of the bark from each side of a tree to mark a surveyor’s line through the woods. All concession roads, or lot lines are marked in this manner; wherever a lot line strikes a concession, a short post with the number of the lot and concession is marked on each side of the post. If a tree comes directly on the line where the post should be planted, the tree is substituted. A blaze is made on each side, about three feet from the ground, and the numbers marked. I have frequently in the matter of disputed lines seen the surveyor cut the old blaze off, perhaps, of twenty years’ growth, and discover the numbers perfect, although the wood had made such a growth over the original blaze.