AN ACCOUNT 



OF 



THE UNITED STATES 



OF 



NORTH AMERICA, ^c. 



CHAP. I. 



JBotindaries^ 13^ c* 



AT the conclusion of the revolutionary war vin 1783, 

 which effected the independence of the States, the 

 boundaries between them and the territories of the 

 king of England, were fixed by a treaty concluded at 

 Paris; agreeably to which, the division-line between 

 them commenced at that angle which is formed by 

 a line drawn due north from the source of the St» 

 Croix river to the highlands, along the said high- 

 lands, which divide those rivers that empty into the 

 river St. Lawrence, from those v^hich fall into the 

 Atlantic ocean, to the north-westernmost head of 



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