...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...

...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...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...

...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...

...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...

...Croix—by the said river to its source," <fcc. The line accordingly adopted by the treaty of 1783, was "to be drawn along the middle of the river St. Croix,...from its mouth in the Bay of Fundy, to its source," &c. This explains itself sufficiently. The object was to designate the river St. Croix as having its...

...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...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,...

...question arose. The line after describing the north-west angle of Nova Scotin, is thus defined : — " East by a line to be drawn along the middle of " the St. Croix, from its mouth in the Bay of Fundy to its " source, and from its source directly north to...

...proposition, the Government of Great Ji: in contends that, as the eastern boundary of the United States runs " by a line to be drawn along the middle of the river St. Croix, from its mouth in the Day of Fund y, lo its source;" and as the St. John, though nowhere mentioned in the treaty, has its...

...declared that the eastern boundary of the United States, dividing them from Nova Scotia, should be ' a line to be drawn along the middle of the river St....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...