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Page 1951
United States. President James Daniel Richardson. COPYRIGHT 1909 BY BUREAU OF NATIONAL LITERATURE AND ART Smithsonian Institution THE SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION is the result of the philanthropy of.
United States. President James Daniel Richardson. COPYRIGHT 1909 BY BUREAU OF NATIONAL LITERATURE AND ART Smithsonian Institution THE SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION is the result of the philanthropy of.
Page 1952
United States. President James Daniel Richardson. THE SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION is the result of the philanthropy of an Englishman , James Smithson , a younger son of the Duke of Northumberland , who in 1829 bequeathed a fortune of over ...
United States. President James Daniel Richardson. THE SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION is the result of the philanthropy of an Englishman , James Smithson , a younger son of the Duke of Northumberland , who in 1829 bequeathed a fortune of over ...
Page 1967
... results obtained by those gentlemen , and although they have already detected errors in their inferences they do not consider that by accepting them for the moment as the basis of comparison they can be accused of exhibiting the line ...
... results obtained by those gentlemen , and although they have already detected errors in their inferences they do not consider that by accepting them for the moment as the basis of comparison they can be accused of exhibiting the line ...
Page 1974
... results of them would have contradicted the previous impressions which seem to have governed all their operations , viz , that the point claimed by the United States as the northwest angle of Nova Scotia is not in an elevated region of ...
... results of them would have contradicted the previous impressions which seem to have governed all their operations , viz , that the point claimed by the United States as the northwest angle of Nova Scotia is not in an elevated region of ...
Page 1976
... results of the field operations of the commissioners : ( 1 ) The meridian has been traced by astronomic observations from the monument , established by the consent of both nations in 1798 , at the source of the St. Croix to a point 4 ...
... results of the field operations of the commissioners : ( 1 ) The meridian has been traced by astronomic observations from the monument , established by the consent of both nations in 1798 , at the source of the St. Croix to a point 4 ...
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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.