[GANONG ] BOUNDARIES OF NEW BRUNSWICK 425 
according to DesBarres would include in Charlotte all of the rivers 
centering in Passamaquoddy; this is the present line (run 1845), ex- 
cept that since 1798 it stops at the Chiputneticook. 
Northumberland. Erected 1785, the fourth county, to include 
the North Shore settlements and rivers, with Newcastle as shire town. 
South, by Westmorland, the present line, until Kent was erected in 
1826 (which see page 426), the lines of which became in part, and 
in 1845 entirely the southern boundary. East, by the Gulf of St. Law- 
rence and Bay Chaleur, the latter replaced by Gloucester, which see, in 
1826. North, by Bay Chaleur and Quebec, replaced by Gloucester in 
1826, and by Restigouche in 1837. West and south-west, by a continu- 
ation of the western boundary of Westmorland, until 1803, when it was 
replaced by a line from the north-west corner of the then Westmor- 
land to the south-west Miramichi where it is met by the Nashwaak 
Portage, replaced by the present line in 1837, (run 1841), and 
thence by a line N. 22° 30° W. true meridian to the Quebec 
boundary, the present line, run 1832 and 1873 ; this change was, of 
course, made to include all the settlements on the Miramichi (left to 
the west of the 1786 line), in this county where they naturally be- 
longed. 
Kings. Erected 1785, the fifth county, to include the Kennebe- 
casis, Long Reach and Belleisle, and centering about Kingston 
(changed to Hampton in 1871), as shire town. South, by St. John as 
at present. West, by Charlotte as at present. East, by Westmorland 
and Northumberland, though it never touched the latter; it has shared 
the change of 1787 in the western line of Westmorland (which see 
page 424), and in the adoption of the present line in 1837. North, 
by a line running south-west and north-east through the southernmost 
point of Spoon Island, as at present. 
Queens. Erected 1785, the sixth county, to include Washademoac 
and Grand Lake, centering about Gagetown as shire town. South- 
east by Kings, as at present. South-west by Charlotte, as at present. 
North-east by Northumberland, (to which Westmorland should have 
been added; it is very curious it was not known that the Kings-Queens’ 
line would strike that county, as it did through all the changes in the 
west boundary of the latter), with which line it changed in 1803, and 
again to the present line in 1837 (run 1841); the boundary was not 
shared with Kent until 1845. North-west, by the south boundary of 
Burton township, a well known line in a convenient position interfer- 
ing little with land grants (Map No. 34, 41), continued to Northumber- 
land and Charlotte, the present line (run 1839, 1843, 1846). 
Sec. IL. 1901, 27. 
