The boundary award of the treaty met with great dissatisfaction in Canada. It was cur rently believed, and the belief largely persists, that the interests of Canada had been unduly sacrificed. The Canadian view of the case is presented in Dent's (Last Forty Years of Can ada' (1881), and in more extreme form in Coffm's (Quirks of Diplomacy' (1874). The supposed sacrifice of Canada by Lord Ashbur ton has become a commonplace of Canadian political discussion. Later investigation, how ever, is strongly in favor of the American claim. The whole subject of the boundary has recently been exhaustively treated in an admi rable paper by Dr. William Ganong of Smith College ((Proceedings of the Royal Society of Canada,' 2d series, Vol. VII, 1901). Dr. Ganong, though a Canadian, decides that Maine was right and New Brunswick wrong in the northwest angle controversy. He bases his de cision on the text of the treaty of 1783, on the maps of the time, on the admissions of Gov ernor Carlton and others and on a petition of the New Brunswick legislature of 1814, virtu ally admitting the American claim. The Mars
Hill boundary line was not advanced, he says, until 1814. In the controversial discussion of the treaty the episode of the °red line" map has played a considerable part (see North American Review, April 1843, and Winsor's 'America,' VII, 180). This was a map found in the French archives and supposed to have been given to Vergennes by Franklin in con nection with the treaty of 1783. A boundary line favoring the English claim was marked upon it in red ink. A copy of this map was in Webster's possession during the negotiations but was not shown by him to Lord Ashburton. It was shown by him to the Maine commission ers and played some part in securing their as sent to the Ashburton Treaty. But it is not proved that the marking of the map was by Franklin, and it is also possible that it was wrongly marked with intent to deceive (see Hinks, (Boundaries Formerly in Dispute,' 1885). To offset this map, the original of which has disappeared, there is still in the Brit ish Museum an English map favoring the Amer ican claim.