 | Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons - Bills, Legislative - 1843 - 576 pages
...originally tailed for in the grant of Nova Scotia, in 1621 : the other leg is a lint1 drawn " along the highlands which divide those rivers that empty themselves into the River St. Lawrence from those which fall into the Atlantic Ocean, ' using the phraseology (with the exception of a single... | |
 | David Henry Montgomery - United States - 1916 - 810 pages
..."the northwest angle of Nova Scotia," thence "to the Highlands," and thence "along the said H ighlands which divide those rivers that empty themselves into the river St. Lawrence, from those which fall into the Atlantic Ocean." Thence the line ran westerly along the 45th parallel,... | |
 | Albert Bushnell Hart - United States - 1917 - 718 pages
...line was to run "from the northwest angle of Nova Scotia, viz. that angle which is formed by a line drawn due north from the source of Saint Croix River...from those which fall into the Atlantic Ocean, to the north westernmost head of Connecticut River." It was soon found that the two governments did not agree... | |
 | William Renwick Riddell - Political Science - 1917 - 196 pages
...West End of the Island of Anticosti, terminates at the aforesaid River St. John." The terminology "the Highlands which divide those rivers that empty themselves into the river St. Lawrence from those which fall into the Atlantic Ocean" is used to express one of the boundary lines between... | |
 | Charles Bungay Fawcett - Political Science - 1918 - 118 pages
...For instance, the treaty l which left Nova Scotia to Britain, and stated that the boundary should be drawn 'due north from the source of Saint Croix River to the Highlands ' and thence between ' those rivers that empty themselves into the river St. Lawrence' and 'those which... | |
 | Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1919 - 920 pages
...of Nova Scotia, viz: That angle which is formed by a line drawn due north from the source of the St. Croix River to the Highlands; along the said Highlands...that empty themselves into the river St. Lawrence from these which fall into the Atlantic Ocean, to the northwestermost head of the Connecticut River,"... | |
 | Louis Clinton Hatch - Maine - 1919 - 362 pages
...jurisdictional acts were predicated upon this assumption and that the language of the treaty of 1783, "along the said Highlands which divide those rivers...that empty themselves into the river St. Lawrence, from those which fall into the Atlantic Ocean," could have but one meaning. Albert Gallatin in his... | |
 | Oscar Douglas Skelton - Canada - 1919 - 348 pages
...intercommunication demanded. The letter of the treaty \was impossible to interpret with certainty. The phrase, "the Highlands which divide those rivers that empty themselves into the river St. Lawrence from those which fall into the Atlantic Ocean," meant according to the American reading a watershed... | |
 | Law - 1920 - 1082 pages
...of the Definitive Treaty described the boundary line in the existing terminology " along the . . . Highlands which divide those rivers that empty themselves into the River St. Lawrence from those which fall into the Atlantic Ocean." In 1805 a Commission to settle this line was agreed... | |
 | State Historical Society of North Dakota - Indians of North America - 1915 - 1006 pages
...angle of Nova Scotia, viz. that angle which is formed by a line drawn due north from the source of the Saint Croix River to the Highlands; along the said...that empty themselves into the river St. Lawrence, from those that fall into the Atlantic Ocean, to the northwesternmost head of Connecticut River ; thence... | |
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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... 
