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These two, like sensible men, gave up each a part of his individual opinion, and divided the Islands, giving Moose, Dudley and Frederick Islands to the United States and the rest along with the Grand Manan to Nova Scotia.

No word of complaint has ever been heard raised against the decision unless we are to oredit the story that Presi- dent Taft thought a few years ago that it would have been infinitely better had Moose Island not been awarded to the United States Then the boundary of the Great Lakes was not quite certain; and again Commissioners were appointed to settle it.

Anthony Barclay (son of Thomas, whom we have met), took the part of British Commissioner in the place of John Ogilvy, of Montreal who died at Amherst burgh, Upper Canada, from a fever contracted in the discharge of his duties Peter Buel Porter, who had prac- tised law at Canandaigua and afterwards had been a very competent commander in the War of 1812 and who was to be Secretary for War in John Quincy Adams cabinet, was the other.

They made an award at Utica, in 1822, wholly satisfactory then and now to all parties" 1 This was by no means the end of the territorial disputes The international boundary was, indeed, settled by Com- missioners at the east and through the Great Lakes and interna- tional rivers, through the Lake of the Woods In 1818, from the Lake of the Woods to the Rocky Mountains, the parallel of 49, X.

Was agreed upon through diplomatic means; but west of the Rockies, the line was in dispute.