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United States but also Campobello, geographically a part of Maine and 
separated from it by only a narrow and shallow channel. Grand Manar: 
also, which from every geographical point of view is more a part of 
Maine than of New Brunswick, would also be assigned on geogra- 
phical grounds to the United States. To-day, therefore, New Bruns- 
wick possesses every island to which she is naturally entitled from geo- 
graphical grounds plus Campobello and Grand Manan. That she does 
so is due chiefly to the fact that the wording of the documents happened 
to be strongly in her favor when applied to the topography. This was 
due to no virtue on her part, but was a pure piece of luck, but of a kind 
with that good fortune which appears, as we shall presently see, to have 
attended the settlement of nearly all her boundary controversies. It is 
also due in great part to the ability with which Chipman presented her 
case, and to the firmness of Barclay’s devotion to British interests in 
his discussions with the American Commissioner. New Brunswick owes 
much to these two men. 
THE CARTOGRAPHY OF THE PASSAMAQUODDY ISLAND CONTROVERSY. 
So far as L can find, this question has had no cartographical aspects 
of any consequence. No surveys were made in connection with it, nor 
was any effect produced upon the printed maps, which at that time were 
mostly upon too small a scale to show any exact boundaries in this 
region. There are probably American maps of the period which show 
Grand Manan as a part of the United States, and there is at least one 
British map showing Moose and Dudley and Frederick Islands in New 
Brunswick, namely, a map of Passamaquoddy Bay, from actual 
survey, 1807, in Atcheson’s “ American Encroachments,” but T have not 
noticed any others. 
(c)—THE NorTH-WEST ANGLE oF Nova SCOTIA. 
We have now to consider the third of the great boundary contro- 
versies, affecting New Brunswick, which grew out of the treaty of 
1783, and this is in every way the most important, best known and most 
complicated of them all. 
The words of the treaty involving the North-west angle of Nova 
Scotia were as follows :— 
And that all disputes which might arise in future, on the subject of the 
boundaries of the said United States may be prevented, it is hereby agreed 
arid declared, that the following are, and shall be their boundaries, viz., From 
the north-west angle of Nova Scotia, viz., that angle which is formed by a 
