210 Tin: TUKATY OF WASHINGTON. 



8tates autl Great Britain was siispendi3d by the Treaty 

 of October 20, IS 18. By that treaty it was stipula- 

 ted that from tlie Lake of the "Woods to the " iStony 

 ^lountaius," tlie line of deiiiarkatiuu between tlie pos- 

 sessions of the two countries in America shouhl l)e 

 the forty-ninth i)arallel of hititude. westward to the 

 Stony Mountains. 



Tilt' United States mij^ht well liave insisted on pro- 

 ceodluL,' dm' west fi'om tlie most northwestern point 

 of the Lake of the Woods, the terminal point in that 

 direction of the Treaty of Independence, which is 

 uearer the parallel of 50°; but, in early unsuccessful 

 negotiations on this subject under President Jeflerson, 

 wc liad agreed to adopt the 40th parallel, and that 

 agreement was renewed by the Treaty of 1818, in obc» 

 dience to the assiuiiption that this line had been es- 

 tablished by the Treaty of Utrecht.* 



* The "Treaty of IVncc ami Amity" between France and 

 Ejii^land contains tlio following provision [Art. X.] : 



"(Juant aux liniites cntro la IJaic do Hudson ct les licux ap- 

 partenans u la l^'rance, on cwt convcim reciproquenicnt (pi'll 

 sera nomine incessamment des CommiBsaircs, q\\\ le:i detcr- 

 niineront dans Ic icrme d'un an: . . . les niemcH Conimissaircs 

 nuront Ic ponvoir do reglcr pareillctnent les limitcs enlrc les 

 aulres colonies Franc/aises ct HritannicpicH dans co pays-lA." — 

 Dumonl, t.viii., pt. 1, p. na2-3:]H. 



Mr. Bancroft, misled by Mr. Grccnliow, says of tliis arti- 

 cle: 



"On the Gulf of ]\Icxico, it is certain that Franco claimed to 

 the Del Xortc. At the northwest, where its collision would 

 Imvo been witi the jiossessions of iho Company of Hudson's 

 Bay, no treaty, no connnission, ajipears to have fixed its liin* 

 its."— liancrolVi* History^ vol. iii.,p, UI3. 



