[GANONG] ADDITIONS TO MONOGRAPHS 151 



Boundaries. 



Y. ADDITIONS AXD COEEECTIOXS TO THE MOÎ^OGRAPH 

 OX EVOLUTIOX OF THE BOUXDAEIES. 



228, A later disc-ussion of John ]\Iitchers relations with the St. 

 Croix of the Xova Scotia-Massachusetts Boundary is contained in " John 

 ]\litchers Diary and Field Book of his Survey of Passamaquoddy in 

 3 76-J:" in the Collections of the X.B. Historical Society, II, 175. 



TS'è. An exaniintion of the Bernard Papers preserved in the Har- 

 vard College Library throws some light upon the relation of Governor 

 Bernard to the grant on the Eiver St. Croix and his idea ol the location 

 of tha,t river. They show that he did not apply for the grant for hini- 

 .-elf but for some ol his friends and tnat his name was included in the 

 giant by the Xova Scotia authorities, and that, further, he deferred to 

 the opinion of the Nova Scotia authorities as to the identity of the Eiver 

 St. Croix, accepting with them the Cobscook. 



338. Another view of the spirit shown by Maine in the boundary 

 controversy is given by Burrage in Coll. Maine Hist. Soc, 3rd Ser., 

 1904, 353.' 



356. As here noted there is preserved in the British Museum a 

 copy of ^litchell's map which is without doubt that used by the British 

 Commissioners in their negotiations in 1783. On it there is marked 

 a boundary line along which is written, in the handwriting of King 

 George III, himself (Windsor, Xarrative and Critical History of 

 America,! YII, 181) " Boundary as described by Mr. Oswald." Further, 

 it is known that this map embodies changes made after Mr. Strachey the 

 other commisioner reached Paris and hence it represents the line agreed 

 to by the British Commissioners (Fitzmaurice, Life of Lord Shelburne, 

 III, 295, 321). Naturally therefore this map must represent the Inter- 

 rational boundary as understood both l)y the Commissioners and by King 

 George III. I have the good fortune to be able to present a photograph 

 of this map herewith (map Xo. 42), which has been taken for me 

 with the kind aid, and under the expert direction of Mr, Basil Souilsbjy 

 Keeper of maps in the British Museum. It will be seen that the 

 boundary as marked concedes essentially the American claim.^ 



359. A valuable contribution to the still unsettled question as to 

 the nationality of Mark Island near Campobello, hence ha,ving an im- 

 portant bearing upon the settlement of the final water-line, occurs in the 

 Ms. Minutes of Council respecting allottments of land, (preserved 



^ Compare also Benton's " Thirty Years' View," Vol. 11, 422, which seems 

 to make this point plain. 



