...United States terminates, the line of boundary shall be continued westward along the said forty-ninth parallel of north latitude to the middle of the channel which separates the continent from Vancouver Island, and thence southerly through the middle of the said channel and of Fuca's Straits...

...boundary on the West Coast aa follows : — " The line shall be continued westward along the said 49th parallel of north latitude to the middle of the Channel which separates the Continent from Vancouver Island, and thence southerly through the middle of the said Channel and of Fuoa Straits to...

...American Territory was denned as follows : — "The line shall be continued westward along the 49th parallel of north latitude to- the middle of the Channel which separates the Continent from Vancouver Island, and thence southerly through the middle of the said Channel and of Fuca Straits to...

...territories of tho United States and those of Her lint.imiic Majesty, from the point on the forty-ninth parallel of north latitude up to which it had already been ascertained, should b% continued westward along the said parallel of north latitude 'to the mi-Idle of the channel which...

...outside sea, would take the other course. Both channels then being known in 1846, when the words " the middle of the channel which separates the continent from Vancouver's Island " became part of a treaty, which of them was intended ? Captain Prevost tried to show from the order...

...free for the purposes of navigation to the Hudson's Bay Company and other British subjects. When " the middle of the channel which separates the continent from Vancouver's Island " is spoken of, it is plain that the parties to the treaty conceive of but one channel, or at least...

...the territories of the United States and those of Her Britannic Majesty, from the point on the 49th parallel of north latitude up to which it had already...should be continued westward along the said parallel of iiorth latitude to the middle of the channel which separates the continent from Vancouver's Island,...

...Washington of June 15, 1846, after being carried westward along the forty-ninth parallel of northern latitude to the middle of the channel which separates the continent from Vancouver's Island is thence to be drawn southerly through the middle of the said channel and of the Fuca straits to the...

...Washington of June 15, 1846, after being carried westward along the forty-ninth parallel of northern latitude to the middle of the channel which separates the continent from Vancouver's Islana is thence to be drawn southerly through the middle of the said channel and of the Fuca straits...

...and survey. The convention of the 15th of June, 1840, declares that the line shall be drawn through the middle of the channel which separates the continent from Vancouver's Island. And upon this it may be asked what the word « channel' intended to mean. Generally speaking, the word...