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The next move in the location of the St. Croix is of much inter- 
est. Governor Bernard had specially requested, be it noted, that a 
erant for his friends should be made to the eastward of St. Croix. But 
on October 21st, 1765, a grant was made by Nova Scotia of 100,000 
acres west of the Scoodic and between it and Cobscook. It was made to 
Francis Bernard, Thomas Pownal, John Mitchell, Thomas Thornton 
and Richard Jackson. Now why was the grant mada in this position ? 
Hither the Nova Scotia Council disregarded Bernard’s wishes entirely, 
(which is very unlikely since they were making the grant by his wish) 
or else, they were so firmly convinced that the Cobscook was the St. 
Croix that they considered it safe to make the grant where they did. 
We cannot but notice also that the location of the grant in this posi- 
tion was very good policy for Nova Scotia, since, as Governor Bernard 
wished the grant in Nova Scotia, its location west of the Scoodic would 
secure his powerful influence in having the Cobscook fixed as the bound- 
ary between Massachusetts, of which he was governor, and Nova Scotia. 
Why he wished to have his grant in Nova Scotia instead of Massachu- 
setts is a separate question, but we can understand that he could not 
“ith propriety seek so great a grant for himself and his friends from 
the State of which he was Governor. The Nova Scotia view seems to 
have prevailed for a time, for, in Pownall’s addition to Evans’ map 
(Map No. 18) followed on several maps, including one of 1776 by Hol- 
land (Map No. 14), the western boundary of Nova Scotia is drawn run- 
ning northward from the source of the Cobscook. 
But his grant was afterwards escheated for non-fulfilment of con- 
ditions, and so far as I can find no further attempts were made in this 
period to settle the position of the St. Croix. The troubles which led 
to the Revolution soon after began ; the breach widened’ between Massa- 
chusetts and Nova Scotia, and the question of the St. ICroix does not 
reappear until the new Treaty of Peace, in 1783. 
THE CARTOGRAPHICAL History OF THE BOUNDARIES DURING THE 
ENGLISH PERIOD. 
| The cartographical history of the boundaries during this period 
is very simple. Up to 1763 all of the English maps which showed the 
western boundary of Nova Scotia laid it down as a direct line from the 
source of the St. Croix due north to the St. Lawrence. On maps after 
1763 a boundary is laid down along the highlands just south of the River 
St. Lawrence, and the north line from the St. Croix stops there. This 
is as far as I know universally the case ; it is certainly so in the many 
maps I have examined. In Gallatin’s “ Right of the United States,” 
page 76, is given a list of English maps published between 1763 and 
