254 ROYAL SOCIETY OF CANADA 
Andrew’s Island, and in the latitude of forty-five degrees five minutes and five 
seconds north, and in the Longitude of sixty-seven degrees twelve minutes 
and thirty seconds west from the Royal Observatory at Greenwich in Great 
Britain, and three degrees fifty-four minutes and fifteen seconds east from 
Harvard College in the University of Cambridge in the State of Massachu- 
setts. And the course of said River up from its said mouth is northerly to a 
point of land called The Devil’s Head, then turning the said point is westerly 
to where it divides into two streams, the one coming from the westward and 
the other coming from the northward having the Indian name of Chiputnate- 
cook or Chibnitcook as the same may be variously spelt, then up the said 
stream so coming from the northward to its source which is at a stake near 
a yellow Birch Tree hooped with Iron, and marked S+T and IXH 1797, by 
Samuel Titcomb and John Harris, the Surveyors employed to survey the 
abovementioned stream coming from the northward. And the said River is 
designated on the map hereunto annexed and hereby referred to as farther 
descriptive of it by the Letters A.B.C.D.E.F.G.H.I.K and L the letter A being 
at its said mouth, and the letter L being at the said source. And the course 
and distance of the said source from the Island at the confluence of the 
above mentioned Two Streams is as laid down on the said Map north five 
degrees and about fifteen minutes west by the magnet about forty-eight 
miles and one-quarter. ; 
IN TESTIMONY WHEREOF we have hereunto set our Hands and Seals 
at Providence in the State of Rhode Island the twenty-fifth day of October in 
the year one thousand seven hundred and ninety-eight. 
THO. BARCLAY L.S. 
DAVID HOWELL L.S. 
EGBT BENSON L.S. 
Witness 
ED. WINSLOW, 
Secretary to the 
Commisioners. 
(From the volume of minutes of the Board. Printed also in Moore, Burrage, 
and several other places.) 
The map here referred to is reproduced herewith, (Map No. 20). 
The commissioners gave no statement of the reasons for their deci- 
sion upon the various points, but happily this information is abundantly 
supplied from other sources, notably from the letters of Amory’s “ Life 
of Sullivan” and in Rives’ “ Life of Barclay,” all admirably summar- 
ized in Moore’s work, and also in a report made by Benson, the third 
commissioner, to the President of the United States. Several questions 
were to be decided by the commissioners,— the St. Croix intended by 
the treaty, whether the historical ancient St. Croix or that of Mitchell’s 
map, the position of its mouth, and the position of its source, the latter 
question rendered the more difficult by the discovery that it is formed 


1 Given by Moore, 33, who mentions the other copies, in the ‘‘ Case of the 
United States laid before the King of the Netherlands” in the Proceedings 
of the Massachusetts Historical Society and elsewhere, and mentions the dif- 
ferences in the versions. 
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