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grasping cupidity after a few miles of territory; 

 which if acquired, could be but of little avail- 

 able advantage to the other party. To her, 

 however, this tract is of more value, as securing 

 a free access to all the British provinces, with- 

 out being obliged to the forbearance of any 

 neighbouring state for that enjoyment. If in the 

 final fulfilment of the fourth and fifth articles 

 of the treaty of 1815 it should be awarded that 

 the claim of the American government to have 

 the boundary pass along the north-easterly ridge 

 of land is just, and ought to be acceded to, it 

 is very desirable, and even important to hi& 

 Majesty's colonies, that one of the instructions 

 to the British negociator should be, to obtain 

 the cession of this tract of country, either by 

 exchange or other equivalent means, in order 

 that the communication from Nova Scotia and 

 New Brunswick with Lower Canada may be 

 henceforth secured from the chance of interrup- 

 tion. 



In addition to these exterior boundaries be- 

 tween us and ?i foreign territory, the settlement 

 of which is in the hands of the imperial govern- 

 ment, there are also some relating to interior 

 division that ought to occupy the attention of 

 the provincial legislature. Of these the most 

 prominent are the district boundaries, that, as 

 they are now fixed, produce embarrassment 



