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mouth of the Digdeguash, was the island described by Champlain, 
thus seeking to sustain his contention that the Magaguadavic was the 
St. Croix. The British agent appears to have hit upon the correct 
island, namely, Dochet, as Isle St. Croix, but apparently the com- 
missioners were then unconvinced by either. When the commission 
met in Boston in August, 1797, very lengthy arguments were sub- 
mitted by the agents of the two countries. The British agent traced 
the history of the River St. Croix of the Treaty, and argued that it 
was the same as the River St. Croix of all the earlier charters, etc., 
and the same as the St. Croix in which de Monts had wintered in 
1604, and he claimed that the Scoodic (the present St. Croix) was that 
river. The American agent, on the other hand, claimed that the 
River St. Croix of the Treaty of 1783 was not that of the ancient 
charters, but the river locally so called, and so represented upon the 
maps of the time, especially on Mitchell’s map of 1755 which was 
admitted to have been used by the negotiators of the treaty in their 
deliberations, regardless of whether this was the ancient St. Croix 
of de Monts and Champlain or not. The former St. Croix he 
claimed to be the Magaguadavic. The commissioners, as their deci- 
sion shows, unanimously decided that the contention of the British 
agent was correct, a decision which is fully in accord with the evidence 
and, indeed, the only one possible in the light of a full knowledge 
of the subject. The question then resolved itself into this, which 
of the rivers was the St. Croix of de Monts and Champlain? Hap- 
pily this question was answered even before it was asked, and here 
St. Croix, or Dochet, Island steps once more upon the scene. In 
June or July, 1797, Mr. Chipman, the British agent, received from 
Europe a copy of Champlain’s map of 1604 (fig. 8), which now became 
known to the members of the commission for the first time. He 
sent a copy of this map to Robert Pagan, a prominent citizen of St. 
Andrews, who, guided by the map, proceeded to Dochet Island; but 
we will let him tell his own story, in his own words. It is contained 
in a deposition laid before the commission, and preseryed among their 
papers. 
Robert Pagan Declares, that having obtained a Plan of St. Croix Island 
said to have been publish at Paris Anno 1613 and having compared it with 
the Shore Coves and Points of the Island laying a few miles below the mouth 
of Scoodiac River at the Devils Head commonly called Doceas Island, and 
also with the shores &c@ of the main Land westward and Eastward of it, as 
laid down in that Plan, and having found a most striking agreement between 
every part of these shores, coves and points and that plan. 
He on the 7th day of this Instant July went to said Doceas Island accom- 
panied by William Cookson, Thomas Greenlaw, Nehemiah Gilman and John 
Rigby for the purpose of making further discoveries there. On the North 
End of said Doceas Island where in the plan above mentioned the French 
