5GLOUCESTER COUNTY is bounded as follows:- Northerly by the Chaleur Bay; easterly by the Gulf of Saint Lawrence; southerly and westerly by the line run north eighty-eight degrees west by Deputy Davidson, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and forty-five, from the Gulf of Saint Lawrence at the rear of the first division of lots in the Tracadie grant, until it strikes Portage River, a branch of Northwest Miramichi River; thence north twenty-two degrees west, by the magnet of the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and eighty-four, to intersect the line of Restigouche County, and thence along the southerly and easterly bounds of the said county to Chaleur Bay, including Miscou Island, Shippegan Island, and all the other adjacent islands.