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stonhaugh and Mudge, in their Report of 1849, show that the com- 
missioners did nothing but follow the north line of 1818 to its ter- 
mination at Beaver Brook, and then returned along the line to the 
monument. No attempt was made by them to carry out the principal 
part of the Governor’s instructions to trace the line along the high- 
lands on the northern boundary of the state. Along with their report 
they handed to the Governor a map of the disputed territory compiled 
from various sources, showing the eastern and northern boundaries, 
of which a copy is in the Crown Land office in Fredericton. It, of 
course, locates the north-west angle of Maine on the highlands near 
the St. Lawrence, and in all respects reflects the Maine claim. The 
results obtained by this commission were singularly disproportionate 
to the intentions expressed in the letters and messages of Governor 
Kent, and it is rather a striking commentary upon the respective in- 
terests of Maine and New Brunswick in the disputed territory that 
these commissioners, like other Maine officials who had preceded them, 
were obliged to pass through New Brunswick and could only proceed 
with their surveys by courtesy of the New Brunswick government, 
a courtesy which was invariably accorded. Maine had not, even as 
late as 1838, any road from her own settlements into the disputed 
territory. 
In 1838, the United States renewed the attempts to form a new 
commission, and Great Britain, although convinced of the impossi- 
bility of reaching an agreement by this method, and still believing 
that a compromise line should be drawn dividing equally the claims of 
the two parties, professed herself unwilling to neglect the only 
method that now seemed practicable and agreed to the commission. 
A correspondence followed, fully set forth in the British Blue Book 
of 1840, upon the constitution of this commission, and the numerous 
proposals and counter proposals as to its constitution occupied two 
years longer. In the meantime, however, events were occurring in 
the disputed territory leading to what is known in local history 
as the “Aroostook War,” which only with the greatest difficulty were 
kept from plunging the two countries into war. It is not in place here to 
review this subject in detail, interesting as it is locally. The fullest 
materials for its study exist in the British Blue Books of the time, 
and in the Maine official publications, where all the documents and 
correspondence are given in full.t For our present purposes it is 
enough to say that an agreement had early been reached that neither 
nation would carry on any operations in the disputed territory pending 

1 The original Ms. correspondence of the warden of the Disputed Terri- 
tory with the New Brunswick authorities is in my possession, 
