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Page 1967
... Britain in an unfavorable light . 1. - DESCRIPTION OF THE DISPUTED TERRITORY . The seacoast of the State of Maine is rugged and hilly . The primitive rocks of which its geological structure is chiefly composed are broken into ridges ...
... Britain in an unfavorable light . 1. - DESCRIPTION OF THE DISPUTED TERRITORY . The seacoast of the State of Maine is rugged and hilly . The primitive rocks of which its geological structure is chiefly composed are broken into ridges ...
Page 1968
... Britain , on the other hand , when seen from a distance is as level as the surface of the ocean , with no greater appearance of elevation and depres- sion than would represent its billows ; while , seen from its own valleys , the ...
... Britain , on the other hand , when seen from a distance is as level as the surface of the ocean , with no greater appearance of elevation and depres- sion than would represent its billows ; while , seen from its own valleys , the ...
Page 1970
... Britain , who doubtless made similar ones , as he visited the same stations with a better instrument and for the same avowed purpose . Mr. Odell's observations were not presented by the British agent , and those of Mr. Johnson were ...
... Britain , who doubtless made similar ones , as he visited the same stations with a better instrument and for the same avowed purpose . Mr. Odell's observations were not presented by the British agent , and those of Mr. Johnson were ...
Page 1971
... Britain to represent without meet- ing with contradiction that the streams which fall into the St. John had their rise in a country possessed of none of that mountainous character which they urged was essential to the epithet of ...
... Britain to represent without meet- ing with contradiction that the streams which fall into the St. John had their rise in a country possessed of none of that mountainous character which they urged was essential to the epithet of ...
Page 1973
... Britain is less elevated than the lowest gap of that claimed by the United States . On the third portion of the American line : From the head of the Ouelle to the Temiscouata portage - Feet . The maximum height is ... 2,231 The minimum ...
... Britain is less elevated than the lowest gap of that claimed by the United States . On the third portion of the American line : From the head of the Ouelle to the Temiscouata portage - Feet . The maximum height is ... 2,231 The minimum ...
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Page 1979 - St. Croix River to the highlands; along the said highlands which divide those rivers that empty themselves into the river St. Lawrence, from those which fall into the Atlantic Ocean, to the northwesternmost head of Connecticut River...
Page 1980 - Lawrence : comprehending all islands within twenty leagues of any part of the shores of the United States, and lying between lines to be drawn due east from the points where the aforesaid boundaries between Nova Scotia on the one part, and East Florida on the other, shall respectively touch the Bay of Fundy, and the Atlantic Ocean ; excepting such islands as now are, or heretofore have been, within the limits of the said Province of Nova Scotia.