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Quebec along the highlands not far south of the St. Lawrence and make 
the line from the source of the St. Croix run to them... No map nor 
document official or otherwise is known in all this period which makes 
the boundary between Nova Scotia and Massachusetts different from 
these other than in those minor particulars in which the maps of the 
time differ from one another? The documents therefore establish, and 
the maps actually represent, a north-west angle of Nova Scotia lying on 
the highlands just south of the St. Lawrence. From 1763 to 1783, 
therefore, both maps and documents agreed in assigning a north-west 
angle to Nova Scotia and in placing it on the watershed just south of 
the St. Lawrence (compare maps 14, 15 and 30), and there was no in- 
consistency between the maps and the documents or between these and 
the topographical knowledge of the time. 
We come now to consider the description of the boundaries in this 
region as given by the treaty of 1783 ; and, fresh from the consideration 
of the documents just referred to, we cannot but be struck by the resem- 
blance between the wording of the treaty and the wording of them. To 
make this plainer, they may be set in parallel columns. 
1. The line separating Quebec on the one hand from Nova Scotia and 
Massachusetts on the other, 1.e., the southern boundary of Quebee 
and the northern boundary of Nova Scotia and Massachusetts. 
PROCLAMATION, 1763. 
(Said line, crossing the 
river St. Lawrence and 
the Lake Champlain, in 
forty-five degrees of 
north latitude) passes 
along the Highlands which 
divide the rwers that empty 
themselves into the said 
river St. Lawrence from 
those which fall into the 
sea, and also along the 
north coast of the Bay 
des Chaleurs. 
Act, 1774. 
On the south, by a line 
from the Bay of Cha- 
leurs along the Highlands 
which divide the rivers that 
empty themselves into the 
river St. Lawrence from 
those which fall into the 
sea, to a point in forty- 
five degrees of northern 
latitude, on the eastern 
bank of the river Con- 
necticut. 
TREATY, 1783. 
(A line drawn due 
north from the source of 
the St. Croix river, to 
the Highlands), along 
the said Highlands which 
divide those rivers that 
empty themselves into the 
river St. Lawrence from 
those which fall into the 
Atlantic Ocean to the 
northwesternmost head 
of Connecticut River. 
2. The due north line between Massachusetts and Nova Scotia. 
COMMISSION OF 1763 AND OTHERS 
LATER. 
(Across the entrance of the Bay of 
Fundy to the mouth of the) River 
St. Croix, by the said River to its 
source, and by a line drawn due 
north to the southern boundary of 
our Colony of Quebec. 
TREATY OF 1783. 
A line drawn due north from the 
source of the St. Croix River, to the 
Highlands east by a line 
to be drawn along the middle of the 
River St. Croix, from its mouth in the 
Bay of Fundy to its source; and 
from its source directly north, to the 
aforesaid Highlands. 

1 A list of these maps, 36 in number, is given in the “ Statement of 1829.” 
2 Excepting that erecting Sunbury County (page 226), which however had 
no bearing whatever on the boundary controversies. 
