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same time her negotiators were no match in ability or diplomatic 
skill for those of the United States. And very important is it to remem- 
ber, especially in an elaborate discussion of a local question of this 
kind, that in comparison with the great questions before the negotia- 
tors of the treaty in 1782-83 the question as to the exact course of the 

Map No. 19. Mitchell, 1755, first edition. From original; x 4 
boundary in one small section of an unknown and wilderness country, 
was insignificant, and hence did not receive that elaborate and minute 
consideration in every detail to which we with our local pride and 
interest are apt to assume it to have been entitled. 
We now proceed to consider in order, (a) the determination of the 
River St. Croix, (b) the assignment of the Passamaquoddy Islands, (c) 
the north-west angle of Nova Scotia, and (d) the final water-line. 
