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sioners visited Passamaquoddy in person in July, 1893, and examined 
the region, but were still unable to agree upon the points in controversy. 
They proceeded, however, to mark permanently the parts of the line upon 
which they had agreed, using either convenient permanent objects upon 
the shores, or else large stone monuments, to mark the lines, and white 
buoys to mark the angles in the lines. The buoys have been partly car- 
ried away by the strong currents, but those which remain, and the shore 
monuments, are readily visible, and are observed as authoritative by the 
residents in the vicinity. These lines are shown upon the sketch map 
illustrating Professor Mendenhall’s paper. 
The chief point of difference between the commissioners concerned 
the ownership of the little island, called Mark Island or Popes Folly * 
(map No. 25, the tiny island just east of the figure 6 north of Lubeck). 
As is shown by the map, this is a very tiny island (barely an acre in 
extent) lying almost exactly in the middle of the channel passing between 
Lubee and Campobello. Some maps mark the international boundary 
on the Canadian side of it, some on the American, and at least one, from 
which our map No. 25 is taken, makes it pass through it? This island 
was claimed by both commissioners. It was claimed for Great Britain 
on the basis of the decision of the commissioners under the Fourth 
Article of the Treaty of Ghent, which declared :—“ that Moose Island, 
Dudley Island and Frederick Island, in the Bay of Passamaquoddy, 
which is part of the Bay of Fundy, do and each of them does belong to 
the United States of America, and we have also decided and do decide 
that all the other islands, and each and every of them, in the said Bay 
of Passamaquoddy, which is part of the Bay of Fundy and the Island 
of Grand Menan in the said Bay of Fundy do belong to his said Britan- 
nic Majesty ” (page 290). On the other hand, the American commis- 
sioner claimed it on the following grounds:—First he maintains that 
the commissioners in 1817 restricted their decision to those islands of 
which the ownership had been actually in dispute, and that Pope’s Folly 
was not considered by them because of its trifling importance. The 
inference is that the ownership was not settled by that commission. 
Second, it cannot be shown that at the time of the treaty in 1783 this 
island was or had been a dependency of Nova Scotia. On the contrary, 
so far as there has been any private ownership of the island it has been 
vested in American citizens. He adduces some very interesting facts as 
to its ownership showing that prior to 1808 it was possessed by one Zeba 

1 Not the island north of Campobello also known by this name on some 
maps. 
? Tt passes exactly through its center in the original chart, but some por- 
tions of the plate of the cut had to be re-engraved, and in the operation the 
boundary has been made to pass along the eastern margin of the island. 
