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 '[`REATY WITH GREAT BRITAIN. 1842. 573 ARTICLE I, It is hereby agreed and declared that the line of boundary shall be Bgundgyy rim, as follows: Beginning at the monument at the source of the river St. between YL_S- Croix as designated and agreed to by the commissioners under the fifth ““d th°-B""”h article of the treaty of 1794, between the Governments of the United pgiiisslozsii, States and Great Britain- thence north follow`n the x lor' l` wp` " r, , 1 g e p mg me run and marked by the surveyors of the two Governments in the years 1817 and 1818, under the fifth article of the treaty of Ghent, to its intersection with the river St. John, and to the middle of the channel thereof; thence, up the middle of the main channel of the said river St. John, to the mouth of the river St. Francis; thence, up the middle of the channel of the said river St. Francis, and of the lakes through which it Hows, to the outlet of the Lake Pohenagamock ; thence, southwesterly, in a straight line, to a point on the northwest branch of the river St. John, which point shall be ten miles distant from the main branch of the St. John, in a straight line, and in the nearest direction —but if the said point shall be found to be less than seven milcs from the nearest point of the summit or crest of the highlands that divide those rivers which empty themselves into the river St. Lawrence from those which fall into the river St. John, then the said point shall be made to recede down the said northwest branch of the river St. John, to a point seven miles in a straight line from the said summit or crest; thence, in a straight line, in a course about south, eight degrees west, to the point where the parallel of latitude of 46° 25’ north intersects the southwest branch of the St. John’s; thence, southerly, by the said branch, to the source thereof in the highlands at the Metjarmette portage; thence, down along the said highlands which divide the waters which empty themselves into the river St. Lawrence from those which fall into the Atlantic ocean, to the head of Hall’s stream; thence, down the middle of said stream, till the line thus run intersects the old line of boundary surveyed and marked by Valentine and Collins, previously to the year 1774, as the 45th degree of north latitude, and which has been known and understood to be the line of actual division between the States of New York and Vermont on one side, and the British province of Canada on the other; and, from said point of intersection, west, along the said dividing line, as heretofore known and understood, to the Iroquois or St. Lawrence river. ARTICLE II. It is moreover agreed, that, from the place where the joint commis- Description of sioners terminated their labors under the sixth article of the treaty of the boundary Ghent, to wit: at a point in the Neebish channel, near Muddy Lake, the 1‘"°· line shall run into and along the ship channel between St. Joseph and Auto. p. 221. St. Tammany islands, to the division of the channel at or near the head of St. Joscph’s island; thence, turning eastwardly and northwardly around the lower end of St. George’s or Sugar island, and following the middle of the channel which divides.St. George’s from St. Joseph’s island; thence up the east Neebish channel, nearest to St. George’s island, through the middle of Lake George; thence, west of Jonas’ island, into St. Mary’s river, to a point in the middle of that river, about one mile above St. Georgc’s or Sugar island, so as to appropriate and assign the said island to the United States; thence, adopting the line traced on the maps by th-e commissioners, through the river St Mary and Lake Superior, to a point north of Ile Royale, in said lake, one hundred yards to the north and east of Ile Chapeau, which lastmentioned island lies near the northeastern point of Ile Royale, where the line marked by the commissioners terminates; and from the lastmentioncd point, southwesterly, through the middle of the sound between