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same is maintained to be an infringement to that 

 extent upon the state : but assertion does not 

 estabhsh a fact. I do not permit myself to ques- 

 tion that gentleman^'s scientific abilities, and can 

 therefore attribute the result of his operations, 

 differing so widely as it does from that of others, 

 which have been carefully performed, only to 

 the use of very imperfect astronomical instru- 

 ments, which have betrayed him into so serious 

 an error with respect to the true position of that 

 line. But, for argument's sake, admitting the 

 doctor to have been correct, no advantage could 

 accrue to the United States from the supposed 

 discovery; for it is palpably evident, that a line 

 drawn through these two fixed points of latitude, 

 and extending westerly to the St. Lawrence, 

 would take a much greater superficies from 

 the state of New York than what it cuts off 

 from Lower Canada. This, however, is a subject 

 ttiat will no doubt be critically investigated, 

 and satisfactorily adjusted, by carrying into 

 effect the provisions of the fourth and fifth 

 articles of the treaty of peace of 1815, between 

 his Britannic Majesty and the United States of 

 America. It has indeed become a case of ne- 

 cessity, and a matter of great importance to 

 each government respectively, as there are nu- 

 merous settlements on each side of the boundary 

 already in a flourishing state of cultivation, and 



