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 302 runnin rrnnnrrns. Erie, in a direction to enter the passage immediately south of Middle Island, being one of the easternmost of the group of islands lying in the western part of said lake; thence along the said passage, proceedin g to the north of Cunningham’s Island, of the three Bass Islands, and of the Western Sister, and to the south of the islands called the Hen 21l](lChlCl(- ens, and of the Eastern and Middle Sisters; thence to the middle of the mouth of the Detroit River, in a direction to enter the channel which divides Bois·Blanc and Sugar Islands ; thence up the said channel to the west of Bois Blanc Island, and to the eastof Sugar, Fox,and Stony Islands, until it approaches Fighting or Great Turkey Island; thence along the western side, and near the shore of said last-mentioned island, to the middle of the river above the same; thence along the middle of said river, keeping to the southeast of, and near, Hog Island, and to the northwest of, and near, the island called Isle a la Pache, to Lake St. Clair; thence through the middle of said lake, in a direction to enter that month or channel of the river St. Clair, which is usually denominated the Old Ship Channel; thence along the middle of said channel, between Squirrel Island on the southeast, and Herson’s Island on the northwest, to the upper end of the last-mentioned island, which is nearly opposite to Point aux Chenes, on the American shore; thence along the middle of the river St. Clair, keeping to the west of, and near, the islands called Belle Riviere Isle, and Isle aux Cerfs, to Lake Huron ; thence through the middle of Lake Huron, in a direction to enter the strait or passage between Drummond’s Island on the west, and the Little Manitou Island on the east; thence through the middleof the passage which divides the two last-mentioned islands; thence turning northerly and westerly, around the eastern and northern shores of Drummond’s Island, and proceeding in a direction to enter the passage between the island of St. Joseph’s and the American shore, passing to the north of the intermediate islands No. 61, 11, 10, 12, 9, 6, 4, and 2, and to the south of those numbered 15, 13, 5, and 1; thence up the said lastanentioned passage, keeping near to the island St. Joseph’s, and passing to the north and east of Isle a la Crosse, and of the small islands numbered 16, 17, 18, 19, and 20, and to the south and west of those numbered 21, 22, and 23, until it strikes a line (drawn on the map with black ink and shaded on one side of the point of intersection with blue, and on the other`with red,) passing across the river at the head of St. J oseph’s Island, and at the foot of the Neebish Rapids, which line denotes the termination of gi; beiundary directed to be run by the sixth article of the treaty of en. m,,,,,;,_ And the said Commissioners do further decide and declare, that all the islands lying in the rivers, lakes, and water communications, between the before-described bonndarydine and the adjacent shores of Upper Canada, do, and each of them does, belong to His Britannic Majesty, and that all the islands lying in the rivers, lakes, and water communications, between the said boundary·line and the adjacent shores of the United States, or their territories, do, and each of them docs, belong to the United States of America, in contormity with the true intent of the slegegglertgztkznof the said treaty of 1783, and of the sixth article of the Infaith whereof we the Commissioners afa' Slgnammh degaration, andithereirnto adixed our seals. 0N8am, h we Signed this Dam one in qua rup icate at Utica in the State of N ' United States of America, this eighteenth day of Junewig YE? m tht; ,, year o our Lord one thousand eight hundred and twenty-two. PETER B. PORTER. L. s. ANTH: BARCLAY. [L. s.]