[GANONG ] BOUNDARIES OF NEW BRUNSWICK 237 
Connected with this letter is another document among the Wins- 
low papers, written by Charles Morris, Surveyor General of Nova Scotia, 
in 1765, and entitled “ Observations upon Governor Bernard’s remarks 
on the Plans of Passamaquoddy made by His Directions in 1764.” 
De Champlain says he went from the Island of Magos to a River in the 
Main Land which they called the River Etchemins, which he afterwards des- 
scribed to be a great river running West, and after entering into the same 
going about two Leagues there is a fall of Water where the Savages carry 
their Canoes about Five hundred paces and then re-entering the River and 
Travelling a small Tract of Land they went into the River Nerembegue and 
St. Johns. ~ 
The river named at present by the Indians Copscook agrees with this Dis- 
scription, having from its entrance about two Leagues, such Rapids caused 
by the Tides much like those of St. Johns, that the Indians always land and 
travel thro’ the Woods about five hundred paces and then re-enter the River 
which afterwards divides into two Branches one going the Course of the 
Shores Westerly, and the other. North Westerly into the Country—and this 
the present Indians affirm to be the River St. Croix and they say it was so 
called by the French because it has a Bay running across the Mouth of it. 
The description makes no mention of a River St. Croix but of an Island which 
DeMonts called St. Croix. There are no Rivers half a League wide in wedth 
but the River Scoodick which has a low Island on the Eastern side of the 
entrance called St. Andrews and two very small ones about two leagues up 
which by no means answers the description of Champlain, and Copscook 
which has Many Islands within it. ° 
It would be difficult from this Description to say which DeMonts called 
the Island St. Croix; it was a League or two up the River and not at the 
Mouth of it: according to Mr. Bernards Plan and description of it. St. Croix 
Island [sic] can answer to none but the River Copscook. 
Memorandum for Governor Wilmot, 1765. 
Certified as an accurate copy in 1798. 
hese comments by Morris show a considerable familiarity with 
the region in question, and happily we know exactly how it was obtained. 
In 1765 he was sent by Governor Wilmot of Nova Scotia to survey the 
Lower St. John and Passamaquoddy, which he did with his usual skill 
and accuracy, and both his map and his report, of which I possess 
copies, are preserved in the Public Record Office in London. His map, 
a large one on the scale of a mile to an inch, names the Cobscook 
“River St. Croix, called by the Indians Cobscook,” and the present 
Treat (Dudley) Island he names St. Croix, a name which persisted into 
this century. The Scoodic he calls by that name but gives no name to 
the Magaguadavic. In his accompanying Report he says : — 
This [i.e., the Main Cobscook Bay west of Sewards Neck, map No. 21, 25], 
Running directly across the course of the River [i.e., the part from St. Croix 
or Treats Island to the Falls] and making as it were the Form of a Cross: 
The Indians informed me was the reason why the French gave that Name to 
