Here is an interesting old item about the Maine - New Brunswick boundary.

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Border Wars
"The Ohio Repository" (Canton, Ohio), 06 December 1838, page 3:

We learn from Bangor, in Maine, by way of Boston, that the commissioners and Engineer appointed by Gov. Kent to explore the disputed territory, and, if possible, to ascertain the true boundary line between Maine and New Brunswick, or, in other words, our Northeastern Boundary, arrived at the former place on Monday last, and that their efforts have been crowned with complete success.

The great problem to be solved was, to ascertain the exact location of the "highlands" between the waters emptying on the one side into the river St. Lawrence, and on the other into the Atlantic Ocean. The British diplomatists have denied that there were any such highlands in the contemplated regions. It is stated that the commissioners have not only ascertained that there are such highlands, but that they rise in some places into mountains; and that they have, moreover, discovered the boundary line itself, as marked out by the commissioners under the treaty of 1783, and all the monuments established at that time to fix the line.

This information, if, as it is supposed by Eastern editors, it will lead to the settlement at once of the controversy between the United S. and Great Britain on this subject, is not less welcome than important.-- Nat. Int.