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treaty; who, after having reciprocally communicated their respective 

 full powers, have agreed upon and confirmed the following articles: 



AETICLE I. 



His Britannic Majesty acknowledges the said United States, viz. 

 New Hampshire, Massachusetts Bay, Rhode Island and Providence 

 Plantations, Connecticut, New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Dela- 

 ware, Maryland, Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, and 

 Georgia, to be free, sovereign and independent States; that he treats 

 with them as such, and for himself, his heirs and successors, relin- 

 quishes all claims to the Government, propriety and territorial rights 

 of the same, and every part thereof. 



ARTICLE II. 



And that all disputes which might arise in future, on the subject 

 of the boundaries of the said United States may be prevented, it is 

 hereby agreed and declared, that the following are, and shall be their 

 boundaries, viz : From the northwest 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 Highlands ; along the said Highlands which 

 divide those rivers that empty themselves into the river St. Lawrence, 

 from those which fall into the Atlantic Ocean, to the northwestern- 

 most head of Connecticut River; thence down along the middle of 

 that river, to the forty-fifth degree of north latitude ; from thence, by 

 a line due west on said latitude, until it strikes the river Iroquois or 

 Cataraquy ; thence along the middle of said river into Lake Ontario, 

 through the middle of said lake until it strikes the communication by 

 water between that lake and Lake Erie; thence along the middle of 

 said communication into Lake Erie, through the middle of said lake 

 until it arrives at the water communication between that lake and 

 Lake Huron; thence along the middle of said water communication 

 into the Lake Huron ; thence through the middle of said lake to the 

 water communication between that lake and Lake Superior; thence 

 through Lake Superior northward of the Isles Royal and Phelipeaux, 

 to the Long Lake ; thence through the middle of said Long Lake, and 

 the water communication between it and the Lake of the Woods, to 

 the said Lake of the Woods ; thence through the said lake to the most 

 northwestern point thereof, and from thence on a due west course to 

 the river Mississippi ; thence by a line to be drawn along the middle 

 of the said river Mississippi until it shall intersect the northernmost 

 part of the thirty-first degree of north latitude. South, by a line to 

 be drawn due east from the determination of the line last mentioned, 

 in the latitude of thirty-one degrees north of the Equator, to the 

 middle of the river Apalachicola or Catahouche; thence along the 

 middle thereof to its junction with the Flint River; thence strait to 

 the head of St. Mary's River; and thence down along the middle of 

 St. Mary's River to the Atlantic Ocean. East, by a line to be drawn 

 along the middle of the river St. Croix, from its mouth in the Bay of 

 Fundy to its source, and from its source directly north to the afore- 

 said Highlands, which divide the rivers that fall into the Atlantic 



