Boundaries, Areas, Geographic Centers and Altitudes of the United States and the Several States: With a Brief Record of Important Changes in Their TerritoryU.S. Government Printing Office, 1923 - 234 էջ |
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... present time who have examined the original sources of information have come to the conclusion that in the question of the northwest angle Maine was technically right and New Brunswick wrong , and that the Ashburton treaty took from ...
... present time who have examined the original sources of information have come to the conclusion that in the question of the northwest angle Maine was technically right and New Brunswick wrong , and that the Ashburton treaty took from ...
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... present State of Tennessee . In like manner Virginia pos- sessed what is now Kentucky , and a number of States , including Pennsylvania , New York , Massachusetts , Connecticut , and Virginia , laid claims to areas in what was afterward ...
... present State of Tennessee . In like manner Virginia pos- sessed what is now Kentucky , and a number of States , including Pennsylvania , New York , Massachusetts , Connecticut , and Virginia , laid claims to areas in what was afterward ...
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... present State of Ohio ) and known as the " Western Reserve " of Connecticut in Ohio . Connecticut by act of legislature in October , 1797 , tendered a release of jurisdiction over this tract to the United States , which Congress ...
... present State of Ohio ) and known as the " Western Reserve " of Connecticut in Ohio . Connecticut by act of legislature in October , 1797 , tendered a release of jurisdiction over this tract to the United States , which Congress ...
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... present State of Michigan . On January 26 , 1837 , Michigan was admitted into the Union , with its present boundaries . On June 12 , 1838 , all that portion of Wiscon- sin Territory lying west of Mississippi River and a line drawn due ...
... present State of Michigan . On January 26 , 1837 , Michigan was admitted into the Union , with its present boundaries . On June 12 , 1838 , all that portion of Wiscon- sin Territory lying west of Mississippi River and a line drawn due ...
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... present States of Alabama and Mississippi north of the thirty - first parallel . Tennessee was admitted as a State in 1796. In 1798 Congress organized as the Territory of Mississippi a small rectangular area , bounded on the west by ...
... present States of Alabama and Mississippi north of the thirty - first parallel . Tennessee was admitted as a State in 1796. In 1798 Congress organized as the Territory of Mississippi a small rectangular area , bounded on the west by ...
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aforesaid anticline azurite boundary line carbonate Carolina cent chains charter claimed coast commissioners Congress Connecticut County Creek Cretaceous degree of north Delaware deposits distance Duchesne River east eastern fault Fork forty-ninth parallel Georgia granite monument granted gravel Henrys Fork intersection Lake Land Office latitude latitude 42 limestone line was run lode longitude longitude 71 Louisiana main channel manganese Maryland Massachusetts meridian Mexico middle Mississippi Mississippi River Missouri Mountains mouth north latitude north side northeast northern boundary northwest corner novaculite Ocean Ohio oxides parallel of latitude Park City Park City formation Pennsylvania phosphate bed quartz quartzite range Rhode Island rhodochrosite rhodonite rock sandstone shale smithsonite south boundary southern southwest square miles Stat stone surveyed and marked Tennessee Territory thence south thereof treaty U. S. Geol Uinta Uinta Mountains United Utah Virginia Washington Weber Weber River western boundary York
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Էջ 30 - Red river; then, following the course of the Rio Roxo westward, to the degree of longitude 100 west from London, and 23 from Washington ; then, crossing the said Red River, and running thence by a line due north, to the river Arkansas ; thence, following the course of the southern bank of the Arkansas, to its source, in latitude 42 north ; and thence, by that parallel of latitude, to the South sea...
Էջ 42 - The Republic of Panama grants to the United States in perpetuity the use, occupation, and control of a zone of land and land under water for the construction, maintenance, operation, sanitation, and protection of said canal...
Էջ 30 - But If the source of the Arkansas River shall be found to fall north or south of latitude 42, then the line shall run from the said source due south or north, as the case may be, till It meets the said parallel of latitude 42, and thence, along the said parallel, to the South Sea...
Էջ 33 - Island, which point lies in the parallel of 54 degrees 40 minutes north latitude, and (between the 131st and 133d degree of west longitude (meridian of Greenwich,) the said line shall ascend to the north along the channel called Portland channel, as far as the point of the continent where it strikes the 56th degree of north latitude...
Էջ 148 - That in all that Territory ceded by France to the United States, under the name of Louisiana, which lies north of Thirty-six degrees and thirty minutes north latitude, not included within the limits of the state contemplated by this act, slavery and involuntary servitude, otherwise than in the punishment of crimes whereof the parties shall have been duly convicted, shall be and is hereby forever prohibited.
Էջ 40 - A line running from west to east along or near the twentieth parallel of north latitude, and through the middle of the navigable channel of Bachi, from the one hundred and eighteenth (118th) to the one hundred and twenty-seventh (127th) degree meridian of longitude east of Greenwich...
Էջ 175 - Brule in a direct line to the center of the channel between Middle and South Islands, in the Lake of the Desert; thence in a direct line to the head waters of the Montreal river, as marked upon the survey made by Captain Cramm; thence down the main channel of the Montreal river to the middle of Lake Superior; thence through the center of Lake Superior to the mouth of the St.
Էջ 213 - ... degree of north latitude; thence running in a straight line, in a southeasterly direction, to the River Colorado, at a point where it intersects the thirty-fifth degree of north latitude...
Էջ 104 - ... as it doth extend; and from the head of the said river, the eastern bounds are...
Էջ 31 - Rio Gila, where it unites with the Colorado, to a point on the coast of the Pacific ocean distant one marine league due south of the southernmost point of the port of San Diego, according to the plan of said port made in the year 1782 by Don Juan Pantoja, second...