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their application of the name St. Croix to the Magaguadavic arose in 
some accidental way entirely obscure, or else that it was the result of 
an intrigue by someone interested in having the Massachusetts boundary 
set as far to the eastward as possible. 
One other piece of evidence may here be added to this question. 
In the year 1772, only eight years after Mitchel’s survey, this whole 
region was surveyed with far greater accuracy by Thomas Wright, after- 
wards Surveyor General,of St. John’s (Prince Edward) Island, and his 
great Ms. map in the British Museum, (of which I possess a photogra- 
phic copy), calls the Scoodic the Great River St. Croix, and the Magag- 
uadavie the Little St. Croix river. In 1797 Wright was interrogated 
for the commissioners at St. Andrews as to the source from which he 
obtained those names, and he declared under oath (Winslow Ms.) that 
he could not state exactly, but that he had obtained them from the 
residents, from whom he had obtained all the names, and that he had 
no inducement whatever to put down any names not actually in use 
by the residents. This seems conclusive therefore that both the Scoodic 
and the Magaguadavic were called St. Croix in 1772. No doubt those 
who thought the Magaguadavic was the proper boundary applied the 
name to that river, while those who held that the Scoodic was the true 
boundary applied the name acccordingly. In both cases any opinion 
must have been no more than a pure guess, since the true original St. 
Croix was entirely unknown to the residents. 
We pass now to another stage in the search for the St. Croix. As 
one of the depositions of Israel Jones, above mentioned, states, copies 

1 A partial explanation may be that Mitchel was too much influenced by 
the plan of Southack (map No. 23) by which he himself testified before the 
Boundary Commissioners he was guided on his survey. We cannot in any 
other way explain the fact that he applied the name Passimaquoddy river to 
the Scoodic, for certainly the Indians never used the name in that way. He 
seems to have mistaken Southack’s bay, north of Passamaquoddy island, for 
the inner bay of Passamaquoddy (whereas,, as I shall show later, it is really 
the outer bay between Deer Island and Campobello), and hence identified the 
Passamaquoddy river of Southack with the Scoodic; likewise he would be 
bound to find somewhere a St. Croix river answering to Southack and a 
natural river would be the Magaguadavic. If he himself approached the 
Indians thoroughly convinced that the St. Croix was in that vicinity, it would 
not be at all difficult for the Indians to agree with him that there was a St. 
Croix there, just as later they agreed with Morris that it was the Cobscook 
and with others that it was the Scoodic. This is strongly confirmed by Mit- 
chel’s way of speaking of the subject in his testimony, for, referring to the 
Southack plan, he says the Indians swore ‘‘ that the river St. Croix, as laid 
down in the annexed plan, was the ancient and only river known among them 
by that name” (italics in original). Further, Mitchel was employed by Mas- 
sachusetts and would naturally desire to find the boundary river as far east- 
ward as possible, 
