...north from the heads of the St Croix to the highlands, along the said highlands which divide those rivers that empty themselves into the St. Lawrence from those which fall into the Atlantic Ocean,' was a description known and acknowledged in 1783 both to American and British...

...Ocean, to the north-westernmost head of Connecticut River." Those true highlands which, it is asserted, divide the rivers that empty themselves into the St. Lawrence from those which flow into the Atlantic Ocean, do not, for more than two hundred miles in a straight line, divide the...

...the boundary extending thence westwardly are both expressly described in the treaty, as being on and along the highlands which divide the rivers that empty themselves into the river St. Lawrence, from those which fall into the Atlantic Ocean : it is impossible that the negotiators...

...treaty of 1783, are in part adopted, viz. " bounded on the south by a line from the Bay of Chaltms along the highlands which divide the rivers that empty themselves into the river St. Lawrence from those which full into the Jit/antic Ocean, to the northwesternmost head of...

...along the St. Lawrence, which the Americans consider to be those referred to by the treaty, do not divide the rivers that empty themselves into the St. Lawrence from those which fall into the Atlantic. Now it is clear, from the first extract, that all the waters which can flow from this...

...following is the language employed, to wit : '^bounded on the south by a line from the Bay of Chaleurs, along [the highlands which divide the rivers that empty themselves into the river St. Lawrence, from those which fall into the sea, to a point in fortyfive degrees of northern...

...were the same, in that respect, as those of the proclamation of 1763. Those were " the highlands that divide the rivers that empty " themselves into the St. Lawrence from those that fall into " the Atlantic ocean, "or sea. That highland descriptive boundary was, at that time,...

...description we find the following words : " Bounded on the south by a line/row the Bay of Chaleurs, along the highlands which divide the rivers that empty themselves into the River St. Lawrence from those which fall inia the sea to a point in 45 degrees of north latitude."...

...cross the St. Lawrence and Lake Champlain in the 45th degree of north latitude, and thence to proceed along the highlands which divide the rivers that empty...St. Lawrence from those which fall into the sea, &c. Massachusetts complained of the proclamation of 1763 as taking into Canada what she had insisted on...

...the southern boundary of the province oí Quebec is described аз "а Jine from the bay of Chaleurs along the highlands which divide the rivers that empty themselves into the river St. Lawrence from those which fall into the Atlantic ocean, to the north westernmost head of...