[&aAnoxG] BOUNDARIES OF NEW BRUNSWICK 369 
McCurdy in 1837, a copy of whose detailed map is preserved in the 
Crown Land office. The Commission, as I am informed by Hon. 
Judge Steadman, spent a great deal of time and labor upon the matter 
but failed to reach an agreement. 
The next steps in the settlement of this boundary I have been unable 
to trace. There were of course preliminary negotiations, and in 1857 or 
1858 Messrs. James Steadman for New Brunswick, and Joseph Avard 
for Nova Scotia, were authorized to define a line, which they did. It 
was surveyed by Alex. Munro in 1859, whose map is reproduced here- 
with (map No. 31). The line is thus described by the commissioners : 
Commencing at the mouth of the Missiguash River in Cumberland Bay, 
and thence following the several courses of the said river to a post near 
Black Island, thence north fifty-four degrees twenty-five minutes Hast, cross- 
ing the South end of Black Island two hundred and eighty-eight chains 
to the South angle of Trenholm Island, thence North thirty-seven degrees 
East eighty-five chains and eighty-two links to a post, thence North seventy- 
six degrees East, forty-six chains and twenty links to the portage, thence 
South sixty-five degrees forty-five minutes East, three hundred and ninety- 
four chains and forty links to Tidnish Bridge, thence following the several 
courses of said river along its northern upland bank to its mouth, thence 
following the northwesterly channel to the deep water of the Bay Verte, 
giving to Nova Scotia the control of the navigable waters on Tidnish River. 
(Journals of the House of Assembly of New Brunswick, 1859, 185.) 
These directions are of course magnetic, and corrected to the true 
meridian, they bring the line of S. 65° 45° E. to a due east line. Its 
course is shown fully on the accompanying map No. 31, which is the 
foundation of all later maps of the boundary.? 
From this description it is obvious that the commissioners did not 
carry out the original line established by the commission to Governor 
Carleton in 1784, which was required to follow the Misseguash to its 
source, and to run thence due east to Bay Verte. They deviated in 
three respects. Above the head of tide on the Misseguash the line does 
not attempt to follow the windings of the river, but follows compass 
lines along its general direction, though in such a way as to give the 
entire river, and considerable land to the north-west of it, to Nova 
Scotia. Second, the due east line does not start from the source of the 
Misseguash, but from near Portage Bridge some two miles to the south- 

* The Nova Scotia Reports and Correspondence are in Journals of the 
House of Assembly of that Province for 1858 (App. 38, 59; Journal 457, 504). 
? Wilkinson’s Map of 1859 shows this line running a little south of true 
East and north of true West, which probably represents his belief that 
Munro made too great an allowance for magnetic variation. The amount 
allowed, twenty-four degrees, fifteen minutes, seems excessively large for 
that time. If Wilkinson is correct, the error favoured New Brunswick ; 
another example of New Brunswick’s luck in such matters. 
