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Pentagoet with ten leagues on each side of that river to the River St. 
George. 
But in 1702 war again broke out between England and France, and 
was waged in America by bloody Indian methods and cruel reprisals 
until in 1710 the English took Port Royal. Finally, in 1713, by the 
Treaty of Utrecht, France ceded Acadia to England, in whose possession 
it has remained to this day. 
D. From THE TREATY OF UTRECHT, 1713, TO THE TREATY OF 
Paris, 1763. 
The Article, XII. of the Treaty of Utrecht, which ceded Acadia to 
England, reads as follows :— 
Le Roi Trés-Chrétien fera remettre à la Reine de la Grande-Bretagne, le 
jour de l’éxchange des ratifications du présent Traité de paix, des lettres & actes 
authentiques qui feront foi de le cession faite à perpétuité à la Reine & a la 
Couronne de la Grande-Bretagne, de l’isle de Saint-Christophe, que les sujets 
de Sa Majesté Britannique possédéront désormais seuls; De la nouvelle Ecosse, 
autrement dite Acadie, en son entier, conformément à ses anciennes limites, 
comme aussi de la ville de Port-Royal, maintenant appelée Annapolis Royale; 
& généralement de tout ce qui dépend desdites terres & isles de ce pays-là, 
avec la souveraineté. . . . . 
(Memorials of the English and French Commissaries, 84.) 
THE LATIN DESCRIPTION OF THE PLACES READS THUS :— 
Novam Scotiam, quoque sive Acadiam totam limitibus suis antiquis com- 
prehensam, ut et Portus-Regii urbem, nunc Annapolim Regiam dictam 
TRANSLATION. 
The most Christian King shall transfer to the Queen of Great Britain, the 
day of the exchange of the present Treaty of peace, authoritative letters and 
acts which will guarantee the cession made in perpetuity to the Queen and 
crown of Great Britain, of the Island of St. Christopher, which the subjects 
of his Britannic Majesty will possess for the future exclusively ; of Nova 
Scotia, otherwise called Acadia, in its entirety, conformably to its ancient 
limits, as also the town of Port Royal, now called Annapolis Royal; and 
generally of all depending upon the said lands and islands of this country, 
with the sovereignty. 
With the Island of St. Christopher we have nothing to do, but we 
must note that Cape Breton, and the other islands in the Gulf of St. 
Lawrence, including Isle St. John (now Prince Edward Island) were 
specially reserved to France. The wording of this treaty is noteworthy 
for our present subject, since, while apparently unmistakable, it really 
opened the way to a series of disputes as to the boundaries of Acadia 
which diplomacy was never able to settle, and which were not quieted 
