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River, and the north side of the entrance Cape Hancock ; the south, 

 Adams's Point. 



May %0th. — Gentle breezes and pleasant weather. At one, P. M., 

 (being full sea,) took up the anchor, and made sail, standing down river. 

 At two, the wind left us, we being on the bar with a very strong tide, 

 which set on the breakers ; it was now not possible to get out without a 

 breeze to shoot her across the tide ; so we were obliged to bring up in 

 three and a half fathoms, the tide running five knots. At three quarters 

 past two, a fresh wind came in from seaward ; we immediately came to 

 sail, and beat over the bar, having from five to seven fathoms water in the 

 channel. At five, P. M., we were out, clear of all the bars, and in twenty 

 fathoms water. A breeze came from the southward ; we bore away to 

 the northward ; set all sail to the best advantage. At eight, Cape Han- 

 cock bore south-east, distant three leagues ; the north extremity of the land 

 in sight bore north by west. At nine, in steering and top-gallant sails. 

 Midnight, light airs. 



May %lst. — At six, A. M., the nearest land in sight bore east-south- 

 east, distant eight leagues. At seven, set top-gallant-sails and light stay- 

 sails. At eleven, set steering-sails fore and aft. Noon, pleasant, agree- 

 able weather. The entrance of Bulfinch's Harbor bore south-east by east 

 half east, distant five leagues. 



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Showing that the Forty-ninth Parallel of Latitude was 

 not selected as the llne of separation between the 

 French and the British Territories in North America, 

 by Commissaries appointed agreeably to the Treaty of 

 Utrecht.* 



Mr. Monroe, minister plenipotentiary of the United States in London, 

 in his letter of September 5th, 1804, to Lord Harrowby, the British secre- 

 tary for foreign affairs, t makes the following statement with regard to the 

 adoption of the 49th parallel of latitude as the northern boundary of Lou- 

 isiana: — 



" By the tenth article of the treaty of Utrecht, it is agreed that 'France 

 shall restore to Great Britain the Bay and Straits of Hudson, together with 

 all the lands, seas, sea-coasts, rivers, and places, situate in the said bay 

 and straits, which belong thereto; and it is also agreed, on both sides, to 

 determine, within a year, by commissaries to be forthwith named by each 

 party, the limits which are to be fixed between the said Bay of Hudson 

 and the places appertaining to the French, which limits both the British 

 and French subjects shall be wholly forbid to pass over, or thereby to go 

 to each other, by sea or by land : the same commissioners shall also have 

 orders to describe and settle in like manner the boundaries between the 



* See p. 282 of the History. 



t Communicated to Congress, and published with President Jefferson's message of 

 March 30th, 1808. 5 



