. The magazine of American history with notes and queries. in posses-sion of W. H. Kilby, au-thor of Eastport and Pas-samaquoddy^ throughwhose kind permission weare enabled to reproduceit. The map was made inconnection with the settle-ment of the St. Croix in1798, and bears this in-dorsement : This scetchwas taken from one madeon birch bark by FrancisJoseph an Indian, with theassistance of other Indi-ans, as also the above in-formation at Pleasant Point May 8th, 1798, by us Thomas Millidge, It will be noticed that on this map lake Kioxakick is the same asthe modern Grand lake, as i
. The magazine of American history with notes and queries. in posses-sion of W. H. Kilby, au-thor of Eastport and Pas-samaquoddy^ throughwhose kind permission weare enabled to reproduceit. The map was made inconnection with the settle-ment of the St. Croix in1798, and bears this in-dorsement : This scetchwas taken from one madeon birch bark by FrancisJoseph an Indian, with theassistance of other Indi-ans, as also the above in-formation at Pleasant Point May 8th, 1798, by us Thomas Millidge, It will be noticed that on this map lake Kioxakick is the same asthe modern Grand lake, as its position with reference to the St. John andPenobscot portages shows. This form of the word differs no more fromthose we have given than is to be expected in allowing for individual differ-ences in hearing and writing the same Indian word. In Sotzmanns map of Maine of 1797 and 1798, there is no mistakingthe meaning of the Kawakusaki—it is applied to Grand lake at the head ofthe St. Croix river, though he naturally favored the American view, that the. MAP DRAWN BY AN INDIAN IN THE ST. CROIX OF THE NORTHEASTERN BOUNDARY 265 St. Croix of Mitchells map wasthe Magaguadavic. The latterpart of this word is almostidentical with the form used byMitchell, and the entire word isvery close to the French formof Bellin and DAnville. It should be noticed how theposition of the lake confirmsthis testimony of names. Inall of these maps it is shown asin close proximity to Eel river(called Medoctec on Frenchmaps) on the one hand, and toBaskahegan stream, an affluentof the Penobscot, on the is strictly true of Grandlake, as in first map. One ofthe most traveled and best-known of the old Indian trailswas by way of Eel river toNorth lake and Grand lake,and thence by the Baskaheganto the Penobscot. The conclusion then seemsclear that the claim of UnitedStates writers that the St. Croix of Mitchells map was the Magaguadavic,which therefore should have formed the boundary, must be abando
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