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commissioners, and they did not apparently identify with certainty 
the present Dochet Island with the Isle St. Croix of Champlain, 
although it was so claimed by Chipman from the descriptions. In 
July, however, this identification was made. Chipman received a copy 
of Champlain’s map from Europe in June or July, for on September 8, 
1797, Barclay writes to Lord Granville’ that “ Mr. Chipman had sent 
a copy of the map to a gentleman residing in the vicinity, who pro- 
ceeded to the island and dug upon the site indicated by the map and 
discovered various remains of a former ancient settlement.” This 
gentleman was Robert Pagan of St. Andrews, and his declaration, a 
document of much local interest, dated July 20th, 1797, is in the 
Boundary Ms. and is published by Kilby, 124. He described fully the 
remains which he found by digging upon Bone, now Dochet Island. 
Later in the same year, Thomas Wright surveyed the island (his map is 
extant and has been published with Champlain’s in the preceding Mono- 
graph), and also carefully examined the ruins, and his deposition in 
full is likewise among the boundary manuscripts still unpublished. The 
same map which led to the search for these ruins effectually com- 
pleted the identification of the island with Champlain’s Isle St. Croix, 
for not only are the surroundings identical, as comparison shows, 
but there is no other place in all this region to which Champlain’s map 
could possibly apply. ‘These documents were filed with the commis- 
sion, and settled finally in their minds the identity of the Scoodic and 
of the River St. Croix of Champlain and moreover, as a result, 

1 Compare also statement of Benson in Moore, 39, who says :—‘‘ Subse- 
quent to the View of the Mouths of the Rivers in question, and the adjacent 
objects, by the Commissioners . . . . the Edition of Champlain of 1613 
was procured from Europe.” 
2 As Benson says (Moore, 39), these proofs ‘result in demonstration that 
the Island St. Croix, and the River St. Croix, intended by them, are res- 
pectively Bone Island, and the River Scudiac.”’ 
A very interesting side light upon this subject is thrown by a letter from 
Ward Chipman to William Knox of Oct. 19, 1796 (MS. in my possession). In 
speaking of the recent meeting of the Commissioners at St. Andrews, he says: 
“T found that Mr. Sullivan, as soon as he arrived at Passamaquoddy, gave 
out that there was an island in the mouth of the Magagaudavic river which 
he claims as the St. Croix upon which the French had landed and built a 
fort under DeMonts in 1604 and hastened down to see it, but to his great mor- 
tification and disappointment which he could not conceal upon his return he 
could find no island there. He then searched for an island of the size men- 
tioned by LEscarbot of which I believe there is a great number among those 
in the bay and pitched upon the one nearest his favorite river but which lies 
in the mouth of another small river about 4 miles to the westward called by 
the Indians diggedequash. This island answers the description of the French 
writers in no other particular but its size and how he means to connect it 
with the river he claims it is impossible to conjecture. He however requested 
