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Page 1968
... island , for the Presque Isle and Gissiguit rivers , running the one to the north and the other to the south of it , have branches which take their rise in the same swamp on its north- western side . To the north of the Des Chutes the ...
... island , for the Presque Isle and Gissiguit rivers , running the one to the north and the other to the south of it , have branches which take their rise in the same swamp on its north- western side . To the north of the Des Chutes the ...
Page 1971
... Island , in the St. Lawrence , an outline of which , taken with the camera lucida , is like- wise submitted . About a quarter of a mile to the south of the point where the Temiscouata portage crosses Mount Biort the highlands may be ...
... Island , in the St. Lawrence , an outline of which , taken with the camera lucida , is like- wise submitted . About a quarter of a mile to the south of the point where the Temiscouata portage crosses Mount Biort the highlands may be ...
Page 1980
... islands within 20 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 ...
... islands within 20 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 ...
Page 1982
... island of Cape Breton . The latter , too , fell before the unassisted arms of the New England Provinces in 1745 , at a time when Great Britain was too deeply engaged in the contest of a civil war to give aid either in money or in men to ...
... island of Cape Breton . The latter , too , fell before the unassisted arms of the New England Provinces in 1745 , at a time when Great Britain was too deeply engaged in the contest of a civil war to give aid either in money or in men to ...
Page 1992
... islands within 20 leagues 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 part shall ...
... islands within 20 leagues 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 part shall ...
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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.