[&axoxa] DOCHET (ST. CROIX) ISLAND 197 
2. THE PART or ST. CROIX ISLAND IN THE BOUNDARY CONTROVERSIES, 
AND IN THE DETERMINATION OF THE RIVER ST. CROIX AS THE 
INTERNATIONAL Bounpary, 1796-1799. 
So Isle St. Croix vanished from original histcrical records in 
1632. It does not again come into notice in any way whatsoever that 
I can find until 1772, one hundred and forty years later, when it 
appears, named Bone Island, upon Wright’s fine map of the Passama- 
quoddy Region, a map based upon the first accurate surveys of this 
part of the world. Wright’s map has not been published, but exists 
in manuscript in the British Museum and in the Public Record Office 

Fic. 10.—Earliest modern map to show the Island. From Wright’s Ms. “ Plan 
of the Coast from the West Passage of Passamiquodi Bay to the River 
St. John,” 1772. Original size. 
at London, and, from a copy of the former, Bone Island and its sur- 
roundings are here reproduced (Fig. 10), giving us the earliest modern 
map of the island. As to the name assigned to it, Wright obtained 
it from some of the several settlers then living at Passamaquoddy, 
for in certain testimony given by him before the Boundary Commission 
in 1797 (preserved in Ms. among the records of the Commission), he 
testifies that the names on his map were not given by him, but were 
“obtained from the Inhabitants of the District.” A probable reason 
for the origin of the name has been given earlier in this paper (page 
169). But with this map the island again vanishes, not to reappear, 
so far as I can find, until 1796, when it becomes prominent in certain 
