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in favor of the United States, by a majority 

 consisting of Lord Alverstone and the three 

 Americans. 



Thus passed finally to rest the boundary 

 contention that had tried the tempers of the 

 English-speaking peoples continuously since 

 the beginning of their history as neighbors. 

 Until some new and unforeseen acquisition of 

 territory by one or the other of the nations 

 shall take place, no further differences of this 

 sort seem possible. Every yard of the four- 

 thousand-mile line along which the British and 

 American domains are contiguous, from the 

 Bay of Fundy to the point where the I4ist 

 meridian intersects the shore of the Arctic 

 Ocean, is now fixed, and most of them marked, 

 by the most precise methods known to modern 

 science. Yet eternal vigilance alone can assure 

 the maintenance of the certainty that has been 

 provided. It was, in fact, one incident of the 

 era of good international feeling that we are 

 describing that Messrs. Bryce and Root were 

 able to conclude in 1908 a convention providing 

 for the verification and re-marking of the line 

 from the eastern extremity to the Pacific. 



This annus mirabilis of diplomatic achieve 

 ment produced also a convention that secured 



