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River Mississippi ;* on the west and north-west 

 no limits have been assigned to it, therefore it 

 may be supposed to extend over the vast regions 

 that spread towards the Pacific and the Northern 

 Oceans. The separation between it and the 

 United States is so vague and ill defined, and 

 the prolific source of so many disagreements 

 between the two powers, that it has long called 

 for the revision which is now about to be per- 

 formed in fulfilment of the fourth and fifth ar- 

 ticles of the treaty of peace of 1815. The 

 interior divisions are eight districts, viz. the 

 Eastern, Johnstown, Midland, Newcastle, the 

 Home, Niagara, London, and the Western ; 

 these are again subdivided into 23 counties, viz. 

 Glengary, Stormont, Dundas, Prescott, Russel, 

 Grenville, Leeds, Carleton, Frontenac, Lenox, 

 Addington, Hastings, Prince Edward, North- 

 umberland, Durham, York, Norfolk, Oxford, 

 Middlesex, Lincoln, Haldimand, Kent, and 

 Essex. These contain one hundred and fifty- 

 nine townships, exclusive of Indian lands, and 

 certain other large portions that are reserved for 

 the crown, and the maintenance of the Pro- 

 testant clergy. The townships, taken one with 

 another, will average about 61,600 acres, making 



* This boundary was fixed by the treaty of 1783, but is 

 erroneous, inasmuch as a line drawn due west from the Lake 

 of the Woods will not strike the Mississippi at all. 



