[&AnoxG] BOUNDARIES OF NEW BRUNSWICK 381 
New Brunswick could have no legal claim to any land west of the 
due north line, and hence none to the Temiscouata region, and also 
for its suggestion of the Restigouche with a compromise line bound- 
ary, the first of the very many conventional lines proposed in the 
course of the controversy. It seems surprising that Governor Carle- 
ton while claiming the northern highlands was willing to accept the 
Restigouche as a boundary, but his apparent inconsistency is perhaps 
explained by the state of knowledge of the time. Every published 
map prior to 1800 shows the Restigouche very much too far to the 
north, and very close to the northern watershed (see Map No. 14 and 
Nos. 38 and 40 of the Cartography), whence Governor Carleton’s 
proposition may have been thought by him to be little different from 
the New Brunswick claim. But it is fortunate for New Brunswick 
that his proposition was not accepted. 
The next step was taken by Quebec who on Aug. 4, 1792, pro- 
posed to call on the Mother Country to settle the dispute (Blue-book, 
12). I am uncertain whether or not New Brunswick assented, but 
presumably she did. At all events, Governor Carleton, writing Sept. 
18, 1792, to Dundas, Secretary of State, remarks : — 
I can venture from my own knowledge of the country in question to 
assert that the boundary as established by act of Parliament is evidently 
the Tract of high land which crosses the great portage between the river 
St. Lawrence and the Lake Timisquata. . 
After stating that doubts are entertained in Canada upon this 
subject he goes on to say that if the subject is to be settled by the 
adoption of a new boundary, 
I cannot hesitate to request in behalf of the settlements formed under 
the government of New Brunswick that the line of separation proposed by 
the Committee of Council of Quebec in their Report to Lord Dorchester may 
not be adopted ; and I beg leave to add that I am still on this head of the 
opinion expressed in my letter of the 1st October, 1790, to the Secretary of 
State. 
(MS. in possession of Rev. W. O. Raymond.) 
Both report and letter here mentioned are given in the preceding 
pages (379, 380). | 
In this letter Governor Carleton appears to have expressed the 
opinion that an act of Parliament was needful to alter the boundary 
between the two provinces, for Dundas in a letter to him of Dec. 10 
in the same year, remarks (Archives, 1895, N. B., 29) that no act of 
Parliament is necessary to alter the boundary between Quebec and 
New Brunswick, the Act of 1774 establishing them only during the 
King’s pleasure. 
