74 BRITISH . following the middle of that river, and the great lakes to the head of , &c, leaving all the lands north of this line to the Crown of Great Britain. The commissioners appointed on the part of Great Britain, agreeably to the treaty of Ghent, seem to have been most unaccountably ignorant of the natural configuration of , and they do not even appear to know which river was, in reality, meant for the Croix, but took for granted the one named by the American agents. If we examine a map of the country lying between the and the Lawrence, we will have little difficulty in concluding, that the Penobscot was the Croix understood at the treaty of 1783. It is also well known, that the general name of Croix was given to all the rivers falling into the , from to the river John, from the French having, on first frequenting the country, erected crosses along the coast, which, from this circumstance, long obtained the name of Terre du Croix, or Country of the . As the country claimed by the United States is of vast importance to the power that may possess it, the final adjustment of the boundary line is an object that will likely be attended with considerable difficulty* The physical aspect of presents, along the coasts, with but few exceptions, * Note A, //j 0