...; thence straight to the head of St Mary's river ; thence down along the middle of St Mary's river to the Atlantic Ocean. East, by a line to be drawn along the middle of the river St Croix, from its mou!h in the bay of Funda to its source ; and from its source directlif north, to the aforesaid high...

...the western, and southern limits of the United States, and returns to the eastern, which is formed ' by a line to be drawn along the middle of the river...from those which fall into the river St. Lawrence.' On reading this description, the first question that occurs is, what is meant by the highlands which...

...say they, (that Is at the Devil's Head) the following description in the treaty begins, viz : bounded east by a line to be drawn along the middle of the...Croix from its mouth in the bay of Fundy to its source again, a line drawn from the mouth of St. Croix at Devil's Head to the mouth of St. Mary's river between...

...the south end of the lake Nipissing, and thence straight to the source of the river Mississippi, west by a line to be drawn along the middle of the river Mississippi, from its source to where the said line shall intersect the thirty-first degree of north...

...thence straight to the head of St. Mary's River; and thence down along the middle of St. Mary's River to the Atlantic Ocean ; — east, by a line to be...to the aforesaid highlands, which divide the rivers which fall into the Atlantic Ocean from those which fall into the River St. Lawrence ; comprehending...

...eastern boundary was established by the definitive treaty of peace, of September 3d, 1783, as follows : ' By a line to be drawn along the middle of the river...source, and from its source, directly north to the highlands, which divide the rivers that fall into the Atlantic Ocean from those which fall into the...

...thence straight to the head of St. Mary's river; and thence down along the middle of St. Mary's river to the Atlantic ocean. East by a line to be drawn along the middle of the river St. ( 'mix, from its mouth in the bay of Fundy to its source, and from its source directly north to the...

...never can, in the words of the Ireaty, strike any spot of land actually dividing the waters emptying into the Atlantic ocean, from those which fall into the river St. Lawrence." " So obvious an argument in opposition to the Jine claimed by America could not escape the known sagacity...

...thence by a line due west on said latitude, until it strikes, the River Iroquois or Catarguy • — . East, by a line to be drawn along the middle of the...from those which fall into the River St. Lawrence." The manner of carrying this apparently exceedingly definite and lucid description of Boundary into...

...the Nortlwesternmost head of Connecticut river ;"and, after a description of the other boundaries, " East by a line to be drawn along the middle of the...and from its source directly North to the aforesaid higblands, which divide the rivers that fall into the Atlantic ocean, from those which fall into the...