[Gutenberg 63443] • Twenty Unsettled Miles in the Northeast Boundary / [From the Report of the Council of the American Antiquarian Society, presented at the Annual Meeting held in Worcester, October 21, 1896]

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Great Britain by a long, irregularly shaped estuary, almost everywhere more than a mile in width and over a large part of its length opening into Passamaquoddy Bay and other extensive arms of the sea. This large body of water, with an average depth of twenty-nve fathoms and everywhere navigable for vessels of the largest size, flows with the alter nations of the tides, the rise and fall of which is here eight een to twenty feet, now north, now south, with a current in many places as swift as five and six miles per hour. Noth ing like a distinct channel or thread of stream exists, and it can in no way be likened to or regarded as a river. When once the mouth of the St. Croix is reached, the boundary line is defined by the treaty of 1783 to be the middle of that river, up to its source, but literally, as well as figura tively, we are at sea as to its location from that point to the open ocean. It is the purpose of this paper to give some account of the circumstances which gave rise to such a curious omission; the incidents which led to a diplomatic correspondence and convention relating to the matter, in 1892, between the two governments interested; and the attempt which was made during the two or three years following the convention to determine and mark the miss ing boundary.

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