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gland, however, only the &quot;blind hysterics of the 

 Celt&quot; were discernible across the Channel, and 

 the gaze must follow the trail of the Anglo- 

 Saxon across the ocean to rest on anything 

 really trustworthy. 



In the United States the announcement of the 

 actual award attracted little attention or com 

 ment. It came in the midst of a heated elec 

 toral campaign, and was little available for 

 partisan purposes. The Treaty of Washington 

 had afforded to the Americans their most sub 

 stantial victory a year earlier, when Great 

 Britain expressed her regret and agreed to arbi 

 tration. The carrying out of the treaty was 

 followed with the somewhat languid interest 

 of him who gathers up the trophies after the 

 victory is won. 



Before the expiration of the year 1872 another 

 trophy dropped quietly into the hands of the 

 United States. The Treaty of Washington 

 provided for the settlement of the San Juan 

 water boundary by the arbitration of the Ger 

 man Emperor. By the treaty which ended 

 the Oregon dispute in 1846 it was provided that 

 the line between the United States and British 

 America should be the forty-ninth parallel of 

 latitude from the Rocky Mountains to &quot;the 



