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But this is not the only testimony on the subject. Later in the 
same year Thomas Wright, Surveyor-General of Isle St. John (Prince 
Edward Island), the maker of the map of 1772, already referred to 
(carlier, page 197), visited Passamaquoddy on behalf of the Boundary 
Commissioners, and on October 24, 1797, gave sworn testimony as 
follows (Ms. hitherto unpublished among records of the Boundary 
Commission): 
Since being summoned to attend the Commissioners appointed 
as aforesaid, I have bestowed every attention towards informing myself on 
the Subject of their investigation: Have perused the several publications of 
voyages made by the French to Acadie; their Discoveries thereupon, and con- 
sequent Settlement made (by Monsrs. de Monts, Poutrincourt, Champlain, 
Lescarbot and others), on a small island which they named Isle de Sainte 
Croix, called on my said plan, Bone Island, situated in the midst of the River 
Scoodiac or Great River St. Croix.—I have also critically examined those 
French Settlers plan of the said Island; handed to me by Ward Chipman 
Esqr. His Britannic Majesty’s Agent &c. Have compared it in every particu- 
lar respecting the situation (as described by the said French Settlers) its 
measurement, shape, &c. with that of my said Survey made in 1772; and find 
such the said French Description and plan of the said Isle de Sainte Croix, so 
very nearly to correspond therewith as to leave me not the least room for 
doubt, that the said Isle de St. Croix or Bone Island was the Identical spot 
on which the said Frenchmen made their settlement sometime about or 
between the years 1604 and 1614.—there is no other situation to be found in the 
circuit if the whole Bay of Passamaquoddy to which such the said French 
Description of and plan would in the least apply to; so that taking the whole 
into consideration I have every reason most assuredly to believe that the 
said River Scoodiac is the true and antient named River St. Croix. 
On the same date, Thomas Wright also swore to the following 
testimony, likewise now published for the first time from the Ms. in 
the records of the Boundary Commission. It will be noted that it 
is of very great local interest. 
The Deposition of Thomas Wright, Esquire, His Majesty’s Surveyor Gen- 
eral of the Island of St. John in the Gulph of Saint Lawrence, respecting what 
he saw of Remains of Habitations on Isle de Saint Croix, or Bone Island &c. 
whilst on the Survey thereof October the eleventh and twelfth one thousand 
seven hundred and ninety-seven—in company with Robert Pagan, Esquire, 
and a party of men assisting upon the said Survey &c. 
Thomas Wright, Esquire, above named, upon his Oath doth testify and 
declare that— 
ist. He examined the Foundation of a building (as the People cleared 
away the Trees, Rubbish, &c.) in Form of an oblong square, which he meas- 
ured with a six Feet Rod; and found one Side twenty Feet long, laying in the 
Direction (by his pocket compass) of North North East and South South 
West—The other side at right angles to it (and facing nearly the North End 
of the Island) measured sixty-six Feet in Length, the remaining two Sides of 
