156 NORTH. 
States are entitled to the reftoration of, or full compenfa- 
tion for, all or any flaves, as above defcribed ;—the high 
contrasting parties hereby agree to refer the faid differ¬ 
ences to fome friendly fovereign orflate, to be named for 
that purpofe ; and the high contracting parties further 
engage to confider the decifion of fuch friendly fovereign 
or (late to be final and conclufive on all the matters re¬ 
ferred. 
VI. This Convention, when the fame fhall have been 
duly ratified by the Prefident of the United States, by 
and with the advice and confent of their fenate, and by 
hisBritannic Majefty, and the refpeStive ratifications mu¬ 
tually exchanged, fhall be binding and obligatory on the 
faid United States, and on his Majefty ; and the ratifica¬ 
tions fhall be exchanged in fix months from this date, or 
fooner if poffible. 
In witnefs whereof, the refpeSfive Plenipotentiaries 
have figned the fame, and have thereunto affixed the feal 
of their arms. Done at London, this 20th day of Octo¬ 
ber, in the year of our Lord 1818. 
Albert Gallatin. Richard Rush. 
Frederic John Robinson. Henry Goulburn. 
Now, therefore, be it known, that I, James Monro, 
Prefident of the United States, have caufed the faid Con¬ 
vention to be made public, to the end that the fame, and 
every claufe and article thereof, may be obferved and 
fulfilled, with good faith, by the United States, and the 
citizens thereof. In teftimony whereof, I have hereunto 
let my hand, and caufed the feal of the United States to 
be affixed. Done at the City of Waffiington, this 30th 
day of January, in the year of our Lord 1819, and of 
Independence the forty-third. JAMES MONRO. 
Thus ftand our relations with the United States of 
North America at the prefent moment. 
NORTH BA'Y, a bay of the Eaftern Indian Sea, on 
thefouth coaftof Chiampa. Lat.io. 36. N. Ion. 106. 35.E. 
NORTH CATE. See Cafe North, vol. iii. 
NORTH CA'PE, a cape to the north of Weft Finmark, 
in which Mr. Laing lately difcovered a town, though it 
has been generally underftood that the inhabitants of this 
dreary region are not collected into towns, or even vil¬ 
lages. See Finmark, vol. vii. 
“ About the 20th of June, 1814, the (hips Sybille and 
Princefs Carolina flood from Spitzbergen for the North 
Cape, in order to water and procure any refreftiments 
that could be got. After making the land to the weft- 
ward of the Cape, we flood into a large bay, to look for 
a place of fafety to accompliffi our purpofe, hardly fu Im¬ 
pelling that any inhabitants were to be found. On 
itanding in, we obferved fome boats under fail, one of 
which was foon brought along-fide, that contained a fa¬ 
mily of Finmarkers, fome of whom fpoke the Danifh lan¬ 
guage. They informed us of the town of Hammerfest 
being clofe by, and offered to take us in. This offer was 
foon embraced, and in a few hours the town opened to 
our view; which, to our aftoniffiment, contained a church, 
batteries, &c. The captain of the port foon made his ap¬ 
pearance, and anchored us in fafety. I made a furvey 
of this place, and afcertained its latitude to be 70 0 38' 
34." N. and its longitude 24 0 28' E. from the meridian of 
Greenwich.” 
Hammerfeft is but fmall, the number of the inhabitants 
being eftimated at only about two hundred. The coaft 
in the neighbourhood of the North Cape, however, ap¬ 
pears to be more fully peopled than we could have ima¬ 
gined in a country fituated in fo high a latitude. The 
lame writer fays, “ I was informed that 3000 boats were 
yearly employed by the Finmarkers in fifhing ; for, as 
foon as the hunting feafon is over, they devote their 
whole attention to the fifheries. Four or five men are at¬ 
tached to each boat.” The female beauty of Hammerfeft 
had fu.fficient attraction to induce the gentlemen of the 
Princefs Carolina anti Sybille to give them a ball and flip¬ 
per. The invitation was quite general, and the whole 
went off with great eclat. Laing's Voyage to Spitzbergen, 
2d edit. 1818. 
NORTH CAROLI'NA; fee Carolina, vol. iii. p, 
819, 20. This is the only part of North America that 
produces gold. It occurs in grains, or fmall mafles, in 
alluvial earths, and chiefly in the gravelly beds of brooks 
in the dry feafon ; and one mals was found weighing 
28lbs. In 1810, upwards of 1340 ounces of this gold, 
equal in value to 24,689 dollars, had been received at the 
mint of the United States. C/eavelanrl's Treatife on Mine¬ 
ralogy ; Bofton, N. A. 1816. 
NORTH CO'ASTS (Department of), one of the new 
divifions of France, is bounded on the north by the Eng- 
lifh Channel, on the eaft by the department of the Illeand 
Vilaine, on the fouth by the department of the Morbihan, 
and on the weft by the department of the Finifterre ; about 
fixty-feven miles from eaft to weft, and from twenty-five 
to forty-feven from north to fouth. This department is 
part of Bretagne. St. Brieuxis the capital. 
NORTH CUR'RY, a town of England, in the county 
ofSomerfet; it had formerly two market-days, Tuefday 
and Saturday ; but thefe can hardly be faid now to fub- 
11 ft. Here is a fair on the ill of Auguft. It is feven 
miles eaft of Taunton, and 134 weft of London. 
NORTH DOW'N, a pleafant village in Kent, near 
Margate. 
NORTH-E'AST, f. The point between the north and 
eaft: 
Can they refill 
The parching dog-ltar, and the bleak north-eajl l Prior. 
NORTH-E'AST, adj. Denoting the point between the 
north and eaft.—John Cabot, a Venetian, the father of 
Sebaftian Cabot, in behalf of Henry the Seventh of Eng¬ 
land, difcovered all the north-eajl ccafts hereof. Heylin. 
—The inferiour fea towards the fouth-eaft, the Ionian 
towards the fouth, and the Adriatick on the north-eajl 
fide, were commanded by three different nations. Ar- 
buthnot. 
The north-eaft wind, 
Which then blew bitterly againft our faces, 
Awak’d the fleeping rheum. ShakeJ'peare's Rich. II. 
Off at fea nortli-eaft winds blow 
Sabean odours from the lbicy Ihore 
Of Araby the bleft. Milton's P. L. 
NORTH-EAST LAN'D, an ifland in the North Sea, 
of a triangular form, and about 200 miles in circum¬ 
ference, leparated from Spitzbergen by a channel called 
Hinlopen Straits. Lat. 79. 15. to 80.18. N. Ion. 18.1023. 
30. E. 
In a bay of this ifiand, the Three Brothers of Hull was 
loft, in July laft, (1818,) by getting between two floes of 
ice, which ciofed on her with fuch violence, that ihe was 
cut right in two. Journal of the late Voyage to the A tide 
Regions, publilhed by Phillips, March 1819. 
NORTH-EAST PAS'SAGE. See North Pole. 
NORTH-EAST POI'NT, a cape on the ifland of Ja¬ 
maica. Lat. 18.11. N. Ion. 76. 2. W. 
NORTH-EAST TOW'N, a town of New York : ninety 
miles north of New York. 
NORTH EN'D, a town of Virginia: 185 miles foutli- 
weft of Wafliington. 
NORTH EN'D, a village of Middlefex, in the parifti 
of Fulham, three quarters of a mile fouth-fouth-eall from 
Hammerfmith. Here is Browne’s Houle, the handfomc 
villa of the dowager lady Heathcote, the gardens of which 
are finely difpofed. 
NORTH FER'RY, a fmall village on the north fide of 
the frith of Forth, at the Queen’s Ferry paffage. There 
was here formerly a chapel, ferved by the monks of Dun¬ 
fermline, and endowed by Robert I. Near it are large 
whinftone quarries, which partly fupply London with 
paving-ftor.es, and employ many velfeis for their con¬ 
veyance. 
NORTH 
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