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west of it. Third, the east line does not continue to the sea, but stops 
at the Tidnish river, which river is given to Nova Scotia. Although | 
have not been able to trace the reasons for these three peculiarities (for 
no publications appear to exist which explain them), there can be little 
doubt that they represent a compromise intended to benefit both parties. 
The starting of the due east line from as far south as Portage Bridge 
leaves all the highway road, together with all the grants along it, to New 
Brunswick. Had the line run from the true source of the Misseguash 
farther north, it would have given Nova Scotia a fragment of the high- 
way and a few grants, widely removed from her other settlements. It 
was probably as a compromise for the extra territory thus allotted New 
Brunswick, that the due east line stops at the Tidnish instead of con- 
tinuing on to the sea coast of Bay Verte, and perhaps for the same 
reason that a strip of land along the Misseguash was given to Nova 
Scotia. 
The decision of the commissioners was accepted by both govern- 
ments, and was enacted by both in special laws, in 1858 by Nova Scotia; 
and in 1859 by New Brunswick. The former act received the sanction 
of the Queen at Windsor Jan. 11, 1859. In the latter year, the bound- 
ary was surveyed and marked by Alex. Munro, whose line is the present 
boundary. 
THE CARTOGRAPHY OF THE New Brunswick—Nova SCOTIA BOUNDARY. 
The cartography of this boundary appears to be comparatively 
simple. All of the early maps that I have seen, however, show one fea- 
ture that at first sight appears puzzling, but which is not difficult to 
explain, namely, they show the line from the source of the Misseguash 
not running due east to Bay Verte, but continuing the course of the 
Misseguash north-eastward into the western extremity of that bay. This 
is the case with Bonnor of 1820, with Bouchette of 1831, with Baillie 
and Kendall of 1832, with Wyld of about 1840. The origin of this 
feature is no doubt to be found in this, that they follow the earlier 
description of the line as given by Sydney in May, 1784 (see earlier, 
page 363), which states that it was to run to the nearest part of the Bay 
Verte, instead of the description in the commission of 16 August, 1784, 
to Governor Carleton, which states that it is to run due east to Bay 
Verte. It is easy to imagine that Sydney’s letter was known to some 
early Nova Scotia mapmaker, who was ignorant of the contents of 
Governor Carleton’s commission, that he drew the line accordingly, 
and others followed for a long time without re-investigation, as carto- 
graphers are prone to do. Wilkinson (1859) is the first to show the 
east line, but he does not make it run due east, but somewhat to the 
