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ascend along these mountains. parallel to the sinuosities of the coast, as far as the 139th degree of longitude (meridian of London), and then pursue that meridian indefinitely to the north. The reasons of the two governments for their respective proposals were fully explained by them. In the early stages of the negotiation the Russian plenipotentiaries intimated that they would require the 55th degree of latitude as their southern boundary. In his instructions to Sir C. Bagot, of Jan. 15, 1824, Mr. George Canning, adverting to the fact that no limit was suggested by the Russian plenipotentiaries to the eastern extension of the parallel, declared that it was essential to guard against the unfounded pretensions of Russia in that direction, and for that purpose, whatever the degree of latitude assumed, to assign a definite meridian of longitude as a limit. The 135th meridian northward from the head of Lynn's Harbor might suffice. As to the mainland southward of that point it wo