DOCUMENTS BEAEING ON TREATY OP 1783. 143 



Separate Article to be added at the end of the Treaty. 



It is hereby understood and agreed, that in case Great Britain, at 

 the conclusion of the present war, shall recover or be put in possession 

 of West Florida, the line of North boundary between the said prov- 

 ince and the United States, shall be a line drawn from the mouth of 

 the River Yasspns where it unites with the Mississippi, due east to the 

 River Apalachicola. 



Enclosure No. 2: Alternative Boundary: First Proposition. 



From the north-west angle of Nova Scotia, viz., that angle which 

 is formed by a line drawn due north from the source of St. Croix 

 River to the High lands, along the said High lands which divide 

 those rivers that empty themselves into the River St. Lawrence from 

 those which fall into the Atlantic Ocean to the north-westernmost 

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

 river to the 45th degree of north latitude, from thence by a line due 

 west on said latitude, until it strikes the River Iroquois or Cataroquy. 

 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 

 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 Philipeaux 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 western 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 north- 

 ernmost part of the 31st 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 31 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 straight to 

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



of St. Mary's River to the Atlp^tic Ocean ; east by a line to be 

 drawn along the middle of the River , t. Croix from its mouth in the 

 Bay of Fundy to its source, and from its source directly north to the 

 aforesaid High lands which divide the rivers that fall into the 

 Atlantic Ocean from those which fall into the River St. Lawrence: 

 comprehending all islands within 20 leagues of any part of the shores 

 of the United States, and lying between lines to be drawn due east 

 from the points where the aforesaid boundaries between Nova Scotia 

 on the one part and East Florida on the other shall respectively touch 

 the Bay of Fundy and the Atlantic Ocean, excepting such islands as 

 now are or heretofore have been within the limits of the said province 

 of Nova Scotia. 



