| David Urquhart - 1839 - 138 էջ
...' the line shall cross the River St. Lawrence and Lake Champlain in 45 degrees north latitude, pass along the Highlands which divide the rivers that empty...St. Lawrence from those which fall into the sea, and along the north coast to the Bay of Chaleur.' Here the single word sea makes an important difference,... | |
| Great Britain. Parliament, 1774. House of Commons - 1839 - 328 էջ
...passes along the high lands, which divide the rivers that empty themselves into the said river St. Lawrence, from those which fall into the sea; and also along the north coast of the Bayes des Chaleurs, and the coast of the Gulph of St. Lawrence to Cape Rosieres, and from thence crossing... | |
| Parliament commons, proc - 1839 - 328 էջ
...passes along the high lands, which divide the rivers that empty themselves into the said river St. Lawrence, from those which fall into the sea; and also along the north coast of the Bayes des Chaleurs, and the coast of the Gulpb. of St. Lawrence to Cape Rosieres, and from thence crossing... | |
| Joseph M. White - 1839 - 764 էջ
...passes along the High Lands, which divide the rivers that empty themselves into the said river St. Lawrence from those which fall into the sea : and also along the north coast of the Baye des Charleurs, and the coast of the gulf of St. Lawrence, to Cape Rosiers, and from thence, crossing... | |
| Hugh Murray - 1839 - 646 էջ
...claimed by Great Britain, on the ground that this water-shed is the " high lands which divide those rivers that empty themselves into the St. Lawrence, from those which fall into the Atlantic." A portage of about two miles in some places separates tbe northern and southern water-courses,... | |
| Massachusetts. General Court. Senate - 1839 - 1324 էջ
...Croix, at the point where this line intersects the southern line of the province of Quebec, " running along the highlands which divide the rivers that empty themselves into the said river St. Lawrence, from those which fall into the sea. This point is, and necessarily must be,... | |
| 1839 - 580 էջ
...Nova Scotia is found on the highlands we claim ; but as those highlands divide the rivers which empty into the St. Lawrence from those which fall into the sea, and not the Atlantick ocean, which in their language does not include the bays of Fundy, Chaleurs, and... | |
| Albert Gallatin - 1840 - 200 էջ
...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... | |
| James Campbell (lieut.-col.) - 1840 - 380 էջ
...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... | |
| Albert Gallatin - 1840 - 476 էջ
...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... | |
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