[GANONG ] BOUNDARIES OF NEW BRUNSWICK 357 
THE LITERATURE OF THE NORTH-WEST ANGLE CONTROVERSY. 
The importance of this question was so great that it gave rise natur- 
_ ally to a voluminous literature. The official documents in the case are, 
TL believe, summarized in the preceding pages. In addition, however, 
there is much literature of a semi-official character, in volumes of letters, 
biographies, etc., cited by Winsor and Moore, and there are innumerable 
papers, books, reviews, etc., upon both sides. The latter I have made 
little attempt to study, since for the most part they are violently partizan 
pleadings and contribute nothing to the merits of the controversy. The 
most complete partizan treatment of the entire boundary question is 
that by Hon. I. Washburn in the Collections of the Maine Historical 
Society, while an equally partizan but briefer treatment of the same 
questions from the British side is given by Justice Weatherbe in the 
Collections of the Nova Scotia Historical Society (VI., 1888). It shows 
how completely the judgment of men can be warped by partizanship, 
when we read such opposite conclusions drawn from a long series of 
identical data. In New Brunswick some works appeared upon the sub- 
ject,! of which by far the most important was the “ Remarks upon the 
disputed Points of Boundary under the fifth article of the Treaty of 
Ghent,” published in St. John in 1838 and 1839, a strong exposition of 
the British claim supposed to have been written by Ward Chipman, Jr. 
A very extreme view was advocated by John Wilkinson in a broadside 
in 1840, accompanied by an excellent colored map which attempts to 
show that the St. Croix of the Treaty of 1783 was the west branch of 
the Kennebec, at the head of which he finds the north-west angle of 
Nova Scotia ; and with much ingenuity but with papable absurdity he 
harmonizes the extent of earlier divisions with this view. The extreme 
view of Featherstonhaugh and Mudge is taken by Fleming in his “ His- 
tory of the Intercolonial Railway” (Montreal, 1876). As to the other 
literature of this kind, one may find it through the admirable bibliogra- 
phical notes in Winsor’s “America.” The most detailed and valuable 
bibliography of the subject which has yet appeared is the chronological 
list of “ Maps, Documents, Reports and other papers in the New York 
Public Library relating to the North-Eastern Boundary Controversy ” 
(in the Bulletin of the New York Public Library, IV., No. 12, Dec. 
1900). Brief lists of works relating to the subject are in Williamson’s 
Bibliography of Maine, IT., 16-25, and in Gagnon’s “ Essai de Bibliogra- 
phie canadienne.” The value of Moore’s Arbitrations has been amply 
illustrated in the preceding pages. The works of Gallatin, although 

1 Compare North American Review, LIX., 1828, 421. 
