wjo TIIK Tin.ATV Ul' WASlIIMiTOX. 



^^paiii and the United Status of Fehniary 22, 1810, 

 by \vLicli tlio tbriiier ceded to tlic latter tlie two 

 Kloridas, carrying our territory down to the Gulf of 

 Mexico, and by wliicli also a line of deniarkation was 

 run between the territories of the respective Parties 

 M-est of the jMississippi. This line, connnencing on 

 the Gulf of ]\rexico at the mouth of the Kiver iSabine, 

 proceeds l)y that river, the Ked Ivivei", and the Arkan- 

 sas, to its source in latitude 42° north; "and thence 

 by that parallel of latitude to the South Sea." And 

 S])aiu expressly ceded to the United States all her 

 "I'ights, claims, and ])retensions to any territories east 

 and north of the said line, as thus defined and de- 

 scribed by the treaty." To the rights, claims, and 

 jiretensions of the United States on the northwest 

 coast we could now add those of Spain. 



But another pretender to i-ights on that coast now 

 apiu\\red in the person of Russia, uhose actual occu- 

 l)ation came down to the parallel of i)4° 40'; and 

 thereupon it was agreed between llussla and the 

 United States by Treaty of April 17, 1S24, that the 

 latter woidd not permit any settlement by its citizens' 

 on the coast or islands north of that degree, and that 

 no subjects of t.ic Ibrmer should be permitted to settle 

 on the coast or islands south of the same degree. 

 Xeillier GovuJMiment, however, inuh-rtook to make 

 any cession to the other. Nor was the country south 

 of the line described as a territory or possession of 

 the United States. 



During the next year, llussia and Great Britain 

 concluded a treaty for the demarkatiou of the limits 



