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than to the new Loyalist government of New Brunswick. It is very 
probable that had this been understood by the authorities in England, 
or had the case of Nova Scotia been represented as persistently and 
ably as was that of New Brunswick, the boundary would have been 
established along the Memramcook to Shediac or Cocagne. That it | 
runs as it does is another of those pieces of good fortune which New 
Brunswick has experienced in the settlement of her boundaries, a 
good fortune which is not realized and hence not appreciated by her 
people. 
But though the main course of this boundary became thus re- 
cognized early in the century, the marking of its precise course on 
the ground was not attempted until much later. This delay appears 
to have been in part at least the result of the difficulty of tracing the 
River Misseguash to its source. That river rises in a region of great 
floating bogs in which numerous small streams and lakes unite to 
form the Misseguash, making it difficult or nearly impossible to de- 
termine which is the true source of that river. It was Nova Scotia 
which took the first step towards ascertaining and marking the 
boundary. On Feb. 6, 1836, it was resolved 
That a committee be appointed to wait upon His Excellency the Lieutenant- 
Governor and request that he will be pleased to call the attention of His 
Excellency the Lieutenant-Governor of New Brunswick to the necessity of 
selecting commissioners (to be appointed under the authority of acts to be 
passed for the purpose by the Legislatures of this and the province of New 
Brunswick), to run out and establish the line of division between the two 
provinces. 
(Journals of the House of Assembly of Nova Scotia, 1856.) 
This proposal was accepted by New Brunswick, and that province 
appointed as commissioners, Messrs. E. Botsford and E. B. Chandler. 
The names of the commissioners appointed by Nova Scotia I have 
been unable to ascertain, nor can I find any reference to the proceed- 
ings of this commission beyond a brief reference in the Journals of 
the House of Assembly of New Brunswick for 1837-1838. Appar- 
ently the New Brunswick commissioners proposed to those of Nova 
Scotia to examine the river together, but the latter declined, proposing 
that the matter be left to the surveyors. This the New Brunswick 
commissioners declined, and they then examined the river themselves 
and fixed upon what seemed to them the boundary and reported to 
the Lieutenant-Governor of New Brunswick (Journal of the Legis- 
lative Council of N.B. for 1837-1838, Appendix No. 3, and Journals 
of the House of Assembly, 1837-1838, Appendix No. 14). It was ap- 
parently in connection with these operations of the New Brunswick 
Commissioners that the survey of the region was made by Chas. 
