354 ROYAL SOCIETY OF CANADA 
THE CARTOGRAPHY OF THE NORTH-WEST ANGLE OF NOVA SCOTIA 
CONTROVERSY. 
The subject has been treated somewhat fully in the preceding 
pages, and need only be briefly summarized here. It falls naturally 
into divisions as follows :— 
(a) Maps constructed in connection with the controversy. The first 
of these, so far as New Brunswick is concerned, were the maps of 
the due north line, and of Green River made by the surveyors of 1817- 
1818. The original maps are in the Department of State at Washing- 
ton, and copies are at Augusta, but they are not in the Crown Land 
Office at Fredericton. From them was constructed a map laid before 
the commissioners under the 5th Article of the Treaty of Ghent, and 
it was a copy of this which was laid before the King of the Nether- 
lands. It has been reproduced by Moore (Arbitrations, 85). 
This map became the original for all maps of the region 
covered by its surveys down to 1840, including those of Bouchette 
(1831), Baillie and Kendall (1832), and others, down to the excellent 
boundary map of Wyld of 1839, and even of parts of Featherstonhaugh 
and Mudge of 1840. No new surveys were made until 1840, when the 
elaborate surveys of Graham and others of the north line, and the St. 
Lawrence highlands from the north line westward resulted in very 
detailed and excellent maps, of which copies are in the Department 
of State. From these a reduced map was made by Graham in 1843 
and published with the third report of this commission. It is repro- 
duced by Moore, (I., 149). In this connection we may mention the map 
of Featherstonhaugh and Mudge of 1840 in their report; it contains but 
little new information except as to the highlands in central New Bruns- 
wick, where many accurate barometric measurements are given, and it 
shows also barometric sections of some value. Some copies of this map 
seem to have a straight line along their highlands from the mouth of the 
Aroostook to the head of the Chaudière, but this is lacking in my own 
copy. The highlands shown upon this map have been to some extent 
copied on later maps. Finally there are the maps constructed by the 
commission to survey the International boundary, but these have al- 
ready been referred to. 
(b) Maps to illustrate the lines claimed by the two governments. 
Of these there is a legion, in official reports, blue books, reviews, ete. 
After 1826 they are usually based upon the commissioners map A, show- 
ing the British line along the Penobscot-St. John watershed, but after 
the appearance of Feathersonhaugh and Mudge’s map the British Gov- 
ernment appear to have adopted their line, for the map in the British 
