rods to a stone monument, on the road leading from Parsonfield to Effingham. At this point the variation of the needle was found to be 9 degrees thirty minutes west. Thence north five degrees two minutes east, seven hundred thirty-four to a pine stump, upon a small island in Ossipee River at the foot of the falls; thence north ten degrees east, thirty rods, to a stone monument, on the north side of the new road from Porter to Effingham; thence the same course, five hundred fifty-eight rods, to the top of Bald Mountain; thence same course, three hundred sixteen rods, to the top of Bickford Mountain; thence same course one hundred and ninety-three rods, to a stone monument, on the north side of the road, leading from Porter to Eaton. At this point the variation of the needle was found to be nine degrees forty-five minutes west; thence north eight degrees five minutes east, seven hundred and fortyfour rods, to Cragged Mountain; thence same course, sixty-seven rods, to the corner of Eaton; thence same course, seven hundred eighty-seven and an half rods, to the corner of Conway; thence same course, six hundred ten and an half rods, to a stone monument, on the south side of the road, leading from Brownfield to Conway Center; thence north eight degrees east, eight hundred seventy-one rods, to a stone monument on the south side of the road leading from Fryeburg Village to Conway. At this point the variation of the needle was found to be ten degrees west; thence same course, four rods, to a stone monument on the north side of the same road; thence north eight degrees fifteen minutes east, one hundred two rods, to Saco River; thence same course, eighteen rods, across said river; thence same course, six hundred fortyfour rods, to a stone monument on the road leading to Fryeburg Village, on the north side of the river.

This monument is marked as before described, and is about eight feet high above the ground; thence same course one hundred forty-two rods to Ballard's mill pond; thence same course sixty-one rods six links across said pond; thence same course three hundred forty-four rods to a stone monument on the east side of Chatham road; thence same course six hundred ninety rods to Kimball's pond; thence same course one hundred sixty-six rods across said pond; thence same course sixty rods to a stone monument on the meadow; thence same course nine hundred and forty rods to the corner of Bradley and Eastman's grant; thence same course six hundred and ninety rods to a stone monument on the east side of the Cold River road. This stone is marked as before described, but is not more than two feet above the ground. Thence same course one thousand five hundred forty rods to the corner of Warner and Gilman's location, a pile of stones. At this point the variation of the needle was found to be ten degrees twenty-three minutes west; thence same course four hundred and fifty rods to top of Mount Royce; thence same course eight hundred ninety-eight rods to Wild River; thence same course eight rods across said river; thence same course seven hundred sixty-five rods to a stone monument on the north side of the road leading from Lancaster to Bethel; thence same course one hundred rods to Androscoggin River; thence same course eighteen rods across said river; thence north eight degrees ten minutes east, four thousand one hundred sixtytwo rods, across ten streams, to Chickwalnepg River; thence same course two thousand five hundred rods to a stone monument on the north side of the road leading from Errol to Andover. This stone is marked "N. H." and "M." Thence same course two hundred ten rods to Cambridge River; thence same course eight rods across said river; thence same course five hundred sixty-seven rods to Umbagog Lake; thence same course thirty-four rods across a cove of the same; thence same course ten rods across a peninsula of the same; thence same course two hundred twenty-five rods across a bay of said lake; thence same course two hundred six rods across a peninsula of the same; thence same course one thousand one hundred sixty-five rods, across the north bay of said lake, to a cedar post marked “N.” “M.;”

a From this point the line was resurveyed in 1858, vide p. 44.

thence north eight degrees east seven hundred fourteen rods to Pond Brook; thence same course two hundred twenty-five rods to a stone monument on the south side of the Margallaway River; thence same course ten rods across said river; thence same course one hundred sixty-two rods to a spruce, corner of the college grant; thence same course two hundred sixty-four rods to Margallaway River a second time. At this point the variation of the needle was found to be eleven degrees forty-five minutes west. Thence same course ten rods across said river; thence same course two hundred and ninety rods to same river a third time; thence same course ten rods across said river to a monument made with three stones on the north side of said river, about two feet high and not marked; thence same course four hundred fortyfour rods to corner of township number five, in second range, in Maine; thence same course one thousand eight hundred six rods to the north corner of the same township; thence same course four hundred and sixty rods to a branch of Little Diamond River; thence same course three hundred fifty rods to another branch of the same; thence same course two thousand one hundred twenty rods to a branch of the Margallaway River; thence same course three hundred thirty-two rods to another branch of the same; thence same course four hundred rods to a steep mountain called Prospect Hill; thence same course nine hundred and twenty rods to Mount Carmel, sometimes called Sunday Mountain; thence same course four hundred rods to a perpendicular precipice; thence same course five hundred and forty rods to a branch of Margallaway River; thence same course two hundred and sixty rods to a branch of the same; thence same course three hundred forty-six rods to a second steep precipice; thence same course one hundred eighty-six rods to a branch of Margallaway River; thence same course, two hundred forty-two rods to another branch of same river; thence same course seventy-eight rods to a beaver pond; thence same course one hundred twenty-six rods to a yellow birch tree on the highlands which divide the waters that run south from those that run into the St. Lawrence, being the northern extremity of the line, and one hundred and twelve miles two hundred and thirty-three rods from the head of Salmon Falls River.

Found said tree marked on the east side "M. E. 1789," and on the west "N. H. N. E.;" also "M. 54." To these marks we added "N. H.," "N. E," and "M. E.,” "1828," "E. H.,” “A. M. M.," "1828," and stones were piled round the same and marked.

The whole course of the line from the Androscoggin River was re-marked by spotting the old-marked trees and crossing the spots and marking others in the course. And the line as above surveyed and described we agree to be the true boundary line of said States. And the above-described marks and monuments we establish to designate the same, and that the said line hereafter remain the boundary line between the States, unless the legislature of either State shall, at the first session after the execution of this agreement, disapprove of the same.

WILLIAM KING,

NOVEMBER 13, 1828.

RUFUS MCINTIRE,

Commissioners of Mainc.

ICHABOD BARTLETT,

JOHN W. WEEKS,

Commissioners of New Hampshire.

The legislature of Maine approved of the commissioners' report February 28, 1829, and requested the governor to issue his proclamation accordingly.

The same action was taken by the legislature of New Hampshire, July 1, 1829.

(For Report of Commissioners, see Laws of Maine, 1828-9, under head of Resolves of the Ninth Legislature of the State of Maine, pages 39-43.)

Between 1828 and 1858 considerable portions of the almost unbroken forests through which the line of 1827-28 was marked were cleared. Extensive forest fires often swept large tracts of this territory, and, as a consequence, the marks of the 1827-28 survey for a distance of nearly eighty miles-which by that survey was mainly fixed by blazed trees-only seven stone posts having been set in this distance-were obliterated, so that there remained scarcely a vestige of the original line. The lands having become valuable, and litigation in many cases being imminent, the legislatures of the two States in 1858 provided by enactment for another survey from Fryeburg to the Canada linewhich was made the same year. The line as then surveyed is as follows, viz:

Commencing at an iron post a situated on the line run in accordance with the "Treaty of Washington, of August 9, 1842," as the boundary between the United States and the province of Canada, at the corners of the States of Maine and New Hampshire. On the south face of said post are the words "Albert Smith, U. S. Comssr."; on the north face, "Lt. Col. I. B. B. Eastcourt, H. B. M. Comssr."; on the west face, "Boundary. Aug. 9, 1842"; on the east face, "Treaty of Washington." To the marks are added on the southern half of the west face, "H. O. Kent." A large flat stone was placed on the southern face of the monument and marked "1858-N. H., Me.," on either side of a line cut in said stone bearing the direction of the State's line, viz, south, 8 degrees west.

From this point the line is south 8 degrees west, 17 rods 7 links to a large yellow birch stub, the northern terminus of the former survey; thence 126 rods to a beaver pond; thence 78 rods to the northwesterly branch of the Margallaway, known as Kent River; thence 242 rods to another branch of the Margallaway; thence 186 rods to a certain steep precipice perpendicular on its southern face; thence 346 rods to a branch of the Margallaway River; thence 260 rods to another branch of the same; thence 540 rods to a precipice, the southern side of Mount Abbott; thence 400 rods to the summit of Mount Carmel; thence 920 rods, and across four streams, to the summit of Prospect Hill.

On this distance we marked a yellow-birch tree "H. O. Kent, September 20, 1858," and the names of the remainder of the party; thence 400 rods to another branch of the Margallaway; thence 332 rods to the Little Margallaway River; thence 2,120 rods across Bosebuck Mountain to a branch of said river. On this distance at the northwest corner of township No. 5, range 3, in Maine, we marked a white-birch tree, "N. H. M.," and on its north and south sides "IV, III." Thirty rods from the summit of Bosebuck Mountain, and on its northern slope, we erected a stone monument marked "N. M."; thence 350 rods to the Little Diamond River or Abbott Brook; thence 460 rods to the northwest corner of township No. 5, range 2, in Maine. On this distance we found an ancient yellow-birch tree marked "1789-35, M." To these marks we added "1858"; thence 1,806 rods to the south west corner of the same township. On this distance, at the northeast corner of Dartmouth College, second grant in N. H., we marked a large yellow-birch tree "Me., J. M. W., 1858; N. H., H. O. K."; thence, and across an open bog, 444 rods to the north bank of the Margallaway River, to a

a The position of this post is given in Hitchcock's Geological Survey of New Hampshire as follows, viz: Latitude, 45° 18′ 23′′.33; longitude, 71° 5' 40'.5.

white-maple tree marked "N. H. M."; thence 10 rods across said river to a large pine tree marked “M.” “N. H."; thence and across a second open bog 290 rods to the same river and to a large elm stub; thence 10 rods across said river; thence 264 rods to a spruce post marked "M." "N. H.", "W. L.", "D. C.", being the southeast corner of Dartmouth College, second grant; thence 162 rods to the Margallaway River; thence 10 rods across said river to a stone monument on its southerlý side, standing about 3 feet above the ground and marked "M." "N H."; thence to the original line tree nearest to the clearing of the home farm of Z. F. Durkee, esq. The course of the line the entire distance from the iron post at the national boundary to this point bears south eight degrees west; thence across said clearing, the old line marks being gone, south 11 degrees and 30 minutes west, 168 rods, to the old crossed trees in the woods south of Pond Brook; thence from Pond Brook south eight degrees west, 714 rods to the north bog of Umbagog Lake and to a cedar tree marked "M." "N." To this we added 1858."

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On this distance near the corner of Errol and Wentworth's location, which is a cedar post in a pile of stones, we marked a maple tree "M. 1858," "N. H. 1858"; thence south ten degrees and thirty minutes west 1,165 rods, across the north bay of said lake to the old marked trees on the southern shore; thence south eight degrees west 206 rods across the peninsula to a cedar tree marked "M." "N. H." A large stone, also, on the lake shore was marked “M.” “N. H.”; thence same course 225 rods, across a bay of said lake; thence same course 10 rods, across a peninsula; thence same course 34 rods, across a cove; thence same course 567 rods, to Cambridge River; thence same course 8 rods, across said river to a white-maple stub; thence same course 210 rods, to a stone monument on the north side of the road leading from Andover, Me., to Colebrook, N. H.; thence same course to the north edge of the burnt land in Grafton and Success; thence south 11 degrees west across ten streams and the Chick walmpy River, or Silver Stream, to the old line trees bearing the crosses, easterly of the south end of Success Pond; thence on the same course south 10 degrees west, following the old mark to an ash tree bearing the original cross, standing a few rods north of the house of the late Daniel Ingalls, in Shelburne; thence south 11 degrees west to a stone monument, by the road on the north side of the Androscoggin River, and to the north bank of said river, the whole distance from the stone monument near Umbagog Lake to the north bank of the Androscoggin River, being 6,662 rods; thence south 11 degrees west 18 rods across said river; thence same course 100 rods, crossing the track of the Grand Trunk Railway to a stone monument on the north side of the road leading from Lancaster, N. H., to Bethel, Me.; thence same course 765 rods, to a hemlock tree on the south bank of Wild River; thence south 66 degrees 30 minutes west 34 rods, on an offset of the old survey along said south bank to the old line trees; thence following the old line trees south 11 degrees west, passing the southeast corner of Shelburne, 898 rods to the top of Mount Royce, the whole distance being 1,881 rods. One mile north of the summit of Mount Royce we marked a beech tree "N. H." "M." 1858; thence to a large stone marked "N. H." "Me."; thence south 10 degrees 15 minutes west to a stone monument on the east side of the Cold River road. On this distance at the foot of the first precipice on the northern face of Mount Royce a white-birch tree was marked "1858." Further on and east of a bare ledge a white-birch tree was marked "1858," and near it, on the line, a pile of stones was erected. At the first clearing, near the north end of a stone fence, a large stone was marked "M." "N. H."; thence along a stone fence and across a road through a piece of new growth and again crossing the road; then following another stone fence on the east side of the road, passing through a field and by the end of another stone fence; then crossing a road near the west end of a bridge over Cold River; then following the valley of that stream and crossing it six times; then crossing another road, where we placed a stone monument; then through a field, striking an old stump and pile of stones, shown as the old line and passing between

a house and barn, and through the western edge of a grove of trees to the stone monument near the house of Mr. Eastman, the whole distance being 1,190 rods; thence 1,630 rods to a stone monument standing in the meadow 60 rods north of the north shore of Kimball's Pond, in Fryeburg.

But as the towns of Fryeburg and Stowe have erected no durable monument on the State's line at their respective corners, we deemed it advisable, under our instructions, to proceed so far south as at least to pass the said corner and to complete the work at some well-defined monument of the old survey.

This course bore from the monument to and across an open bay south 12 degrees west; thence on the old trees south 9 degrees west 100 rods; thence on the old line south 10 degrees 30 minutes west to a stone monument erected by us near the house of Jonnet Clay, in Chatham, and on the north side of the road leading from Stowe to Chatham Corners; said monument is marked “M.” “N. H." 1858; thence on the old line south 11 degrees west to the road leading from North Fryeburg to Chatham, at which point we placed a stone monument; thence south 11 degrees west to the northwest corner of Fryeburg, being a stake in a pile of stones in a piece of low ground, southerly of the house of Captain Bryant, and to the old monument, 60 rods north of Kimball's Pond. On the bank north of said corner, on the south side of the road, and near Captain Bryant's house, we placed a stone monument marked "M." N. H. 1858."

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The different courses laid down in the foregoing report are the bearings of the compass in 1858 when placed on the line established in 1828. (See Legislative Journal of New Hampshire, 1859, pages 764–767.)

In 1874 the line between Maine and New Hampshire was resurveyed and marked. (Vide Hitchcock's Geology of New Hampshire, Vol. I, p. 173.)

NEW HAMPSHIRE.

The first charter of Virginia, granted in 1606, included the territory of the present State of New Hampshire (vide p. 39), as did the charter of New England, granted in 1620 (vide p. 39), and the grant to Capt. John Mason and Sir Ferdinando Gorges of 1622 (vide p. 40).

The president and council of New England made a grant to Capt. John Mason in 1629 as follows, viz:

All that part of the main land in New England lying upon the sea coast, beginning from the middle part of Merrimack River, and from thence to proceed northwards along the sea-coast to Piscataqua River, and so forwards up within the said river and to the furthest head thereof, and from thence north westwards until three score miles be finished from the first entrance of Piscataqua River and also from Merrimack through the said river and to the furthest head thereof, and so forward up into the lands westward until three score miles be finished, and from thence to cross overland to the three score miles, and accompted to Piscataqua River, together with all islands and islets within 5 leagues distance of the premises and abutting upon the same, or any part or parcel thereof, &c., which said portions of lands the said Capt. John Mason, with the consent of the president and council, intends to name New Hampshire.

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In 1635 the grant of 1629 was confirmed by a supplementary grant, of which the following is an extract, viz:

All that part of the Mayn Land of New England aforesaid, beginning from the middle part of Naumkeck River, and from thence to proceed eastwards along the Sea