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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing) 2 2 Browse Search
HISTORY OF THE TOWN OF MEDFORD, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, FROM ITS FIRST SETTLEMENT, IN 1630, TO THE PRESENT TIME, 1855. (ed. Charles Brooks) 1 1 Browse Search
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fensive and unjustifiable arrogation of exclusive jurisdiction over an ocean of unmeasured extent. With a view to facilitate the withdrawal of this pretension, Great Britain proposed a settlement of limits. G. Canning to Stratford Canning, Dec. 8, 1824. The actual geographical features of the territory were to a great extent unknown. Vancouver had navigated and charted the coast, but the interior was unexplorded. Back from the shore high mountains were visible, and, after the manner of theountains, which run parallel to the coast, and which appear, according to the map. to follow all its sinuosities, and to substitute generally that which we only suggested as a connection of their first proposition. G. Canning to S. Canning. Dec. 8. 1824. Accordingly, Mr. Stratford Canning, who had lately been appointed a plenipotentiary to conclude the convention, proposed that the line should follow the crest of the mountains in a direction parallel to the coast. but that, if the crest shou