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America where British and American posses 

 sions are contiguous has been marked by mon 

 uments erected by human hands, have contro 

 versies over territorial limits been set finally 

 at rest. 



At the time when the convention of 1818, by 

 the provision for the joint occupation of Oregon, 

 postponed a dangerous dispute concerning the 

 western side of the continent, a serious but 

 unsuccessful effort was in progress to adjust 

 a threatening difference at the far eastern end 

 of the line. The treaty of peace in 1783 had 

 been singularly unsuccessful in the attempt to 

 make clear the northern boundary of the United 

 States. Difficulties in running the line made 

 their appearance all the way from the Atlantic 

 Ocean to the Lake of the Woods. The start 

 ing-point was set forth with much apparent 

 particularity in the treaty: &quot;From the north 

 west angle of Nova Scotia, viz., that angle 

 which is formed by a line drawn due north from 

 the source of Saint Croix River to the High 

 lands; along the Highlands which divide those 

 rivers which empty themselves into the river 

 Saint Lawrence, from those which fall into the 

 Atlantic Ocean, to the northwesternmost head 

 of Connecticut River . .&quot; But no one knew 



