The Cartographical History of the North-Eastern Boundary Controversy Between the United States and Great Britain (Classic Reprint) - Tapa blanda

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A manuscript statement of the controversy between the United States of America and Great Britain in regard to the eastern boundary of the former in the year 1796, by the Egbert Benson one of the commissioners: presented to the Massachusetts Historical Society by the Author, through the hands of His Excellency Governor Strong, Anno 1802.

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Mr. Winsor drew attention to a manuscript statement (belonging to the Society) of the reasons which induced the Commissioners under Jay's Treaty to decide that the Schoodiac River was the St. Croix of the Treaty of 1783. The award or M declaration "of the Commissioners had been several times printed; but Mr. Winsor could not find that this exposition as drawn up by Egbert Benson, the American Commissioner, had ever been given to the public. The manuscript has four well-executed copies of maps attached: (1) Champlain's map of St. Croix Island; (2) a modern survey of Bone or Douchet Island, identified as Champlain's St. Croix Island; (3) a section of Mitchell's map of 1755 used by the Commissioners in 1783; (4) a modern survey of Passama-quoddy Bay. Champlain's map is well known, though Mr. Benson says that the Commissioners were obliged to send to Europe for a copy of the "Voyages" of 1613, which contains it.

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