9NORTHUMBERLAND COUNTY is bounded as follows:- Northerly by Gloucester and Restigouche Counties; west by Victoria County and York County; south by York County and Sunbury County; and southeasterly by the line run from Point Escuminac south seventy degrees and forty-five minutes west forty-eight miles; thence south fifty-one degrees west twenty-three and one-half miles by Deputies Layton and Sadler, in the years one thousand eight hundred and forty-two, and one thousand eight hundred and forty-five, and easterly by the Gulf of Saint Lawrence, including all the islands adjacent thereto, and including all that part of lots eleven, twelve, thirteen and fourteen, and the grant to the Lighthouse Commissioners, and also the public landing; all situate at or near Point Escuminac, lying southeasterly of the said line run by Deputy Layton, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and forty-two.