...language of the Treaty of 15th June, 1846, required that the boundaryline should run " along the 49th parallel of north latitude to the middle of the channel...Island, and. thence southerly, through the middle of said channel, and of Fuca's Straits, to the Pacific Ocean." The English Government claims the Rosario...

...of north latitude, up to which it had already been ascertained, should be continued westward along the said 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...

...parallel of north latitude up to which it had already been ascertained, should be continued westward along the said parallel of north latitude to the middle of the channel which separates tho continent from Vancouver's Island, and thence southerly through the middle of the said channel...

...fatallv consented to deflect it through the gulf of Georgia and the strait of Fuea, using the words, "the middle of the channel which separates the continent from Vancouver's island." It was perfectly well understood at the time that the compact group of intermediate islands, of which...

...forty-ninthparallel of north latitude up to which it had already been ascertained, should be continued westward along the said parallel of north latitude to the middle...middle of the said channel and of Fuca Straits to tho Pacilic Ocean; and whereas tho commissioners appointed by tho two high contracting parties to determine...

...Britannic Majesty and those of the United States shall be continued westward along the said forty-ninth parallel of north latitude to the middle of the channel...southerly, through the middle of the said channel, and of Fuca's Straits to the Pacific Ocean ; provided, however, that the navigation 'of the whole of the said...

...already been «"ji«°fi5!"'iM6;"J ascertained, should be continued westward along the said '.Tol^r^Emww nd exempt from all duties of detraction on the part of the Government of the respective States. The Pnea Straits, to the Pacific Ocean ;" and whereas the Commissioners appointed by the two high contracting...

...of north latitude up to which it hart already been ascertained, should be continued westward along the said parallel of north latitude to the middle...continent from Vancouver's Island, and thence southerly along the middle of the said channel and of Fuca Strait to the Pacific Ocean; and, whereas, the Commissioners...

...second paragraph may be read as if it were written in extenso thus : " And thence southerly through the middle of the Channel which separates the continent from Vancouver's Island, and through the middle of Fuca's Straits to the Pacific Ocean," the channel and the straits being so connected...

...been ascertained, should be continued westward along the said parallel firoflthrll. * ° J u. Vemn. of north latitude "to the middle of the channel which separates the continent MnalBTi, * S'g7Î" ''rom Vancouver's Island, and thence southerly, through the middle of the said channel...