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As both English and French boundary commissioners pointed out, 
maps are not in themselves authorities upon boundary questions, for 
authorities can only be those legal documents or other original records 
which establish the boundaries. But maps, reflecting the knowledge 
and the prejudices of these times, have their value in showing the con- 
ceptions men had of the nature of the topography and the position 
mara 

Map No. 12. French map of 1755 to illustrate boundaries. Outline tracing 
from Winsor; x à. 
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Cromwell’s grant and Acadia 
thence to Canso—part re- 
— — — English claim, 1750. 
* * * * By Treaty of Utrecht. 
Port Royal District, by the 
same Treaty. 
stored to France by Treaty 
of Breda. 
Horizontal shading — Denys’ 
~--...-. Grant to Alexander, 1621. 


Cromwell’s Grant of 1656 to Government. 
LaTour, Crowne and Tem- Oblique shading — Charni- 
ple. say’s Government. 
Vertical shading — LaTour’s 
Government. 
of the boundaries, and by thus aiding us to a better understanding of 
their point of view, help us toia juster judgment of the points at issue. 
Unless otherwise stated, copies of all the maps mentioned in this 
Section may be found in the Cartography of New Brunswick, an ear- 
lier monograph of this series, or in Winsor’s America, vols. IV. and V. 
