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far the best that had been made up to that time, and made from very 
careful surveys, which marked the Scoodic as the Great R. St. Croix, 
and the Magaguadavic as the Little St. Croix. Wright was interrogated 
at St. Andrews for the Commissioners and his testimony, a document 
of much local interest, still unpublished, is among the boundary Ms. 
Tn it he testifies that he used on that map the names he found in use 
among the inhabitants. The substance of the whole matter seems to 
be this, — that in the knowledge that a river St. Croix forming a 
boundary between Nova Scotia and Massachusetts lay somewhere in 
that region, and in the absence of any exact knowledge of its location 
(for, of course, Champlain’s narratives and maps were totally unknown 
to the settlers), the white settlers formed opinions upon the location 
cf the river each upon grounds most natural (viz., agreeable), to him- 
self, and then vigorously advocated his views, or rather expressed them 
as facts, as men are prone to do. The fact that most of these settlers 
were New Englanders inclined them to sympathize with Massachusetts 
rather than Nova Scotia, and hence to favour the Magaguadavic rather 
than the Scoodic. So far as the Indians were concerned, they knew 
little or nothing about the matter, and, drifting in their usual course 
of least resistance, followed the lead which was most vigorously or in- 
geniously set before them. Their testimony as a whole largely nega- 
tived itself and was of no real value, which is the more plain to us now 
when we know that the weight of the testimony, favouring the Maga- 
guadavic as the ancient St. Croix, was wrong. 
We pass next to view Mitchell’s St. Croix in the light of compara- 
tive cartography, and we inquire first from what source he obtained 
his materials. On this there is happily not the least doubt—the river 
itself and the lake at its head are from Bellin’s remarkable type-map of 
1746, reproduced and fully discussed in the Monograph on Carto- 
graphy (373) earlier in this series. From Bellin the ‘river St. 
Croix can be traced back, though with varying representation, through 
all maps of the region clear to Alexander of 1624 and Champlain of 
1613, showing that the St. Croix of Mitchell is cartographically, as we 
have already seen that it is documentarily, the identical individual 
river St. Croix of Champlain. (Compare maps in the cartography). 
Now Mitchell, and Bellin, and all other maps of this type, make 
their River St. Croix head in a lake, Lake Kousaki, or Kaoukasaki, 
which lies close to a branch of the Penobscot on one side and to the 
branch of the St. John named Madocteg on the other. If the identity 
of this lake could be established it would settle the identity of the 
River St. Croix, and happily this is possible, as I have already shown 
Sec. II, 1901. 17. 
