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the boundary question was taken up in earnest, 

 and three distinct commissions were provided 

 for, with recourse to arbiters in case of disagree 

 ment between the commissioners. 



The whole undetermined line from the At 

 lantic to the Lake of the Woods was parcelled 

 out to these bodies for final survey and indica 

 tion. Only one of the commissions was suc 

 cessful in its task: the course of the line among 

 the islands in Passamaquoddy Bay and the 

 Bay of Fundy was agreed upon without much 

 trouble. At the other end of the boundary, be 

 tween Lake Huron and the Lake of the Woods, 

 some points were presented on which the com 

 missioners could not reach an agreement, but no 

 pressing necessity for a settlement arose. The 

 task of the third commission, namely, to run 

 the line from the head of the Saint Croix to the 

 point where the Saint Lawrence is intersected 

 by the forty-fifth parallel of north latitude, 

 proved to be wholly beyond its power. The 

 commissioners toiled for five years, from 1816 

 to 1821, only to reach a hopeless disagreement. 

 As the &quot;northwest angle of Nova Scotia&quot; the 

 opinions of the two commissioners designated 

 respectively points that were 105 miles apart; 

 their views as to the &quot; highlands/ etc., left a 



