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Les diagrammes suivants illustrent la mdthode. rrata o jelure, 1 A 3 32X 1 2 3 1 2 3 4 5 6 ]LIB^^ FROM THE SECRET AR Transmitting, pursuant to a resolution of the House ( A COPY OF THIS MAI OF THE COMMISSIONERS UNDER Tl FOB ASCERTAINIK NORTHERN AND NORTH\^ BETWEEN TKS WSHTMB S^J^miS iH MARCH 18, Read, and laid upon WJLSBINOT PRINTED BY GALES . ILIB^^MB FROM RETARY OF STATE, »lution of the House of Representatives, of the nineteenth ultimo, ^*> MAPS Am REPORT OF THE JMDER THE TREATY OF GHENT, FOB ASCERTAINING THE »JD NORTHWESTERN BOUNDARY BETWEEN m&TSS AMU &MW^T BmViUM. MARCH 18, 1828. Read, and laid upon the table. WJjmNOTONs PRINTED BY GALES & SEATON # M * *.i»W im the point where the 4Sth degree of north Utitude strikes Uie river Iroquois, or Catai-aqui. along Uic middle of said river into Lake Ontario, through tlie middle of said lake, until it strikes the cnroraunicalion. by water, between that lake and Lake Erie ; tlieoee, along the middle of said communication, into Lake Erie, through tnc middle of said lake, until it arrives at Uio water communication into Lake Huron ; thence, through Uie middle of said water communication, into Lake Huron ; thence, through the middle of said lake, to tlic water communication between that lake and Lake Supe- rior ;" and to «« decide to which of the two contracting parties tlie several islands lying witiiin the said riveri, lakes, and water communications, do respectively belong, in conformity wiUi the true intent of tlie treaty of 1 783;" do decide and declare, that the following described line (which is more clearly indicated on a series of maps ac- companying this report, exhibiting correct surveys and delineations of all the risers, lakes, water communica- tions, and islands, embraced by tlie sixlli article of the treaty of Ghent, by a black line, shaded on the British side with red, ami on the American side with blue ; and each sheet of which series of maps is identified by a cer- tificate, subscribed by the Commissioners, and by the two principal surveyors employed by them,) is the true boundary intended by the two beforementioned treaties ; that is to say : Beginning at a stone monument, erected by Andrew Ellicot, Es<|uire, in the year 1817, on the south bank, or shore, of the said river Iro.i«i.is. or Cataraqui. (now called the St. Lawrence.) wliicli monument bear* south, 74* 45' wist, and is eighteen hundred and forty yards itistant from the stone chuicli in tlie Indian village of St. ncgis. and indicates the point ut which tlie 4Slh |»arallel of north latitude strikes the said river ; thence, running north 35' 45' west, into the river, on a line at right angles with the soiiiherii slioie. to a |K)int one hundred yai-ds MiuUi of the oppiwite islaml, called Cornwall Island ; thence, turning westerly, an J passing ai-ound the soulhern and western sides of said island, keeping one hundred yanis distant tlierefniin. and fullowing the curvatures of its shores, to a (wipt opjiosile to the norlhw est corner, or angle, gf said island ; thence, to and along the middle of the main river, imUl it approaches the eastern extremity of Baiiihart'^ Island s thence, nortlierly, along the chan- nel shich divides the last mentioned island from the Canada shore, keeping one hundred yards distant from tlio island, until it approadics Sheik's Island ; thence, along the middle of tlic strait wliirli divides Barnharl's and Sheik's Islands, to the channel called the L«mg Sault, wliicli se|«ratcs tlie two last niei.lioned islands from the Lower Long Sault Island ; thence, westerly, (crossing tlie centre of tlic last mentioned channel,) until il a|v preaches within one hundred yanIs of the north shore of the Lower Sault Island ; ihince, up the north branch of the river, keeping to the north of, and near, the Lower Sault Island, and also north of, and near, the I'pper Sault (somrtimes called Baxter's j Island, and scmlh of the two smail islands marked on the map A and B, to tlie western extremity of the Upiier Sault, or Baxter's Island : llience, passing between the two islands called the Cats, to the middle of the river above ; then, o, along the middle of the river, keeping to the north of tlie small islands marked C and D ; a:id north also of thrystlcr's Island, and of the small islami next above it, mark- ed E. until it approarhea t!ie northeast angle of G.h>sc Neck Island ; thence, along the passage which divides the last menUoned island from the Canada shore, keeping one hund^-cd yards from the island, to the upper emi of the same ; thence, the island marketl F. marked G and H, to tl ed island, keeping one keeping to the south • keeping north of, and also of Tick, Tlbbit' and also of Duck, D No. 14, south of 15 ■ thence, along the mil and No. 39, 44. and 47, and 48, until it a strait which divides 61, and to the soutli the northeast ]ioint o of the small islands. and 71, until it appr and of the two small or Long Island, kee| posito to the southwi Fox. Stony, and the to the middle of the the Niagara river; t the point of the Hor head, and following the middle of said st ver Islands, and to \ ly, along the middle of the easterniiiost ul cceding to ttie north of the islands callci mouth of the Detroi up the said channel, pmaches Fighting (i ed island, to the mi east of, and near. Hi thence, tlimugh the is usually denomina the soiitlieast, and I opposite to Point i to the west of, an^ tlirough the middle the west, and the II two last mentioned Drummond's Islan< American shore, pi of those numbered Thence, up lli and east of Isle a \i those numbereil 21 of the |ioint of iiitei Island, and at the run by tlie sixth ai And the Niiid water communical and each of tlicin water commiinicat torics, do, and ea( the second article II / 1838. th ultimo, dU mionrn Under rd SUtr« and lonor to iT|iort xhibiting Sur- lolution of the ■timionera un- « Seventeenth ion of tbe said :lay. Junt, 1883> le of the Treaty d at Uhent, on ands and seal8, legree of north rio, through tlie Erie ; tlience, t arriven at tlio tiun, into Lake tiid Lake Supe- thc said rivers, reatyof 1783;" iefi or maps ac- ter communica- d on the British intified by a cer- lem,) is the true tlie south bank, ent bears soutli, in village of St thence, running a hundred yards ind tlie southern curvatures of its the middle of the along the chan- distant from tlio I B«rnliarl's and islands from the inel,) until it a|v ! north branch uf near, the l'p|ier nap A and B, to wo islands called tbe north of tlie t above it, mark- ;o which divides to the upper emi of the same; tlicncc, soutli uf, and near, the two »iin*N islanrls called the Nut Isluiids; thencr, north of, and near, the island marke«l F, and also of the iHJniid rullrd Dry or Smuggler'* IsUnd ; thence, passing between the islands narked O and il, to the north of the island ralleil Isle an Rapid I'latt ; thence, along the north side of the last mention- ed island, keeping one hundred yards from the shore, to the upper end thereof; thence, along the middle of the river, keeping to the south of, and near, the islands called Cousson (or Tussin) and Presque lile ; tkence, up th* river, keeping north of, and near, tlie several Gallop Isles, numbered on the map I, 8, S, 4, S, 6, 7, 8, 9, and 10, and also of Tick, Tibbil's. and Cliimnry Islands ; and aoutli of, and near, the Gallop Isles, numbered II, 18, and IS, and also of Duck, Drummond, and Sheep Islands ; tlience, along the middle of the river, passing north of island No. 14, south of 15 and Ifl. north of 17 ; siwth of IS, 19, 30, SI, 82. 23, 84, «5, and 88, and north of 86 and 87 : thence, along the middle of the river, north of Gull Islsnd. and of the islands No. 29, 38, 3S. 34, 35, Blulf Island, and No. 39, 44. and 45. and to the south of No. 30. SI, 36, Grenadier Island, and No. 37, 38, 40, 41, 48, 43, 46, 47, and 48, until it apjii-oaclies th« east cnil of Well's IsUiid ; thence, to the north of Well's Island, and along the strait which divides it Ifoni Howe's Island, keeping to the north of the small islands No. 51, 58. 34, 58, 39, and 61, and to the south of tlie small islands numbered and marked 49, 50, 33. 35, 57, 60, and X, until it apiii-oaches the northeast jioint of Grindstone Island ; thenre, to the north of Grindstone Island, and keeping to the iiurtli alto of the small islands. No. 63. 65, 67, 68, 70, T'i, 78, 74, 7.^ 76, 77. and 78, and to (he south uf No. 68, 64, 66, 69, and 71, until it approaches the southern point of Hickory Island j thence, passing to the south of Hickory Island, and of the two small islands lying near its wiulhern extremity, numbered 79 and 80 ; thence, to the south of Grand or Long Island, keeping near its southern shore, and passing t» the north of Carlton Island, until it arrives op- posite to the southwestern |ioint of ssid Gnind Island in Lake Ontario ; thence, passing to the north of Grenadier. Vox, Stony, and the Oiillop Islands in Lake Ontario, and to the south of, and near, tlie islands called the Ducks, to the middle of the said lake ; thence. weMerly, along the middle of said lake, to a point opimsitc the mouth of the Niagara river; thence, to and up tlie middle of the said river, t'> tlio Great Falls; thence, up the Falls, through the point of the Horse Shoe, ke»-ping tu tbe west of Iris or Goat Island, and of the group of small islands at its head, and following the bends of the river so as to enter the strait between Navy and Grand Islands ; thence, along the middle of said strait, to the head of Navy Island ; thence, to the west and south of, and near to, Grand and Bca. ver Islands, and to the west of Strawberry, 8.|uaw, and BIhI Islands, to Lake Erie ; thence, sinitherly and wester- ly, along the middle of Luke Erie, in a direction to enter the passage iimnediately soutli of Middle Island, being one of the eastermnost uf the group of islands lying in the western part of said lake j thence, along the said |HUisage, pro- ceeding to the north of Cuniiiiigliam's Maud, of the three Bass Islands, and of the Western Sister, and to the S4iutli of the islands calleil the Hen and Chickens, mid of the Eastern ami Middle Sisters ; thence, to the middle of the mouth of the Detroit river, in a direction to enter the channel which divides Hois blanc and Sugar Islands; thence, up the said channel, to the west of Boisblanc Island, and to the east i.f Sugar, Fox, and Stony Islands, until it a])- proaches Fighting or Great Turkey Island ; tlien( e, along the western side, and near Uie shore of said last inention- ed island, to the middle of tlie river above tlie same ; tlience. along the middle of said river, keeping to the south- east of, and near. Hog Island, and to the northwest of, and near, the island called Isle a la Tcclie, to Lake St. Clair ; thence, through the middle of said lake, in a direction to enter Uiat mouth or channel of the river St Clair which is usually denominated the Old Ship Channel; thence, along the middle of said channel, between S<|uirrel Island on the southeast, and Herson's Island on the northwest, to the up|ier end of the Iwt mentioned island, which is nearly opposite to Point au Chenes, on the American shore ; thence, along the middle of the river St. Clair, keeping to the west of, and irtar, the islands called Belle Riviere Isle, and the Isle aus Cerfs, to Lake Huron ; tlience, tlirouRh 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 middle of 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 dii-ection to enter the passage between the Island of St. Joseph's and the American shore, passing to the north of the intermediate Ulands No. ti 1 , 1 1 , 1 0, 1 8, 9, 6, 4, and 2, and to the south ofthosonumbered 15, IS, 5. and I. ...,„.. •. i Thence, up llie said last mei.tiimed passage, keeping near to the island St Joseph s, and passing to the north and east of Isle a la Crosse, and of llie small islands numbered 16, 17, 18, 19, and 20, ami to the south and west of those nurobere.1 n, SJ, i.iid 23. until it strikes a line (drawn on the map with black ink, and shadcti on one side. „f the iKiint of iiitemctioii wi.li blue, and .mi the ..ther with re.1) i«Hslng acims tl.c river at the head of St. Joseph's Island, aiKl at the l.sit of the Neebish Rapids, which lino denote* the deterniiiiation of tho boundary directed to bo run by tlie sixth article of the Trmty of Ghent .....,, . . j And the said Conimissimieis do further decide and declare, that all the islands lying in the rivers, lakes, and wrater coinniunitalioiis, betwin-n the beloiv described boundary line and the adjacent shores of ljp,icr Canada, do, «i.d each of them d.H-s, belong to his nrilaimic Majesty; «iul that all the islands lying in the rivei-s, lakes and water communications, between the said boundary line and the adjacent sh.ii-es of the United SlaU-s.or tlie,r lerri- torics. do, and each of ti.em does, be g to the United States of America, in confuinnty with the true intent of the second article of the said treaty of 1783, and of the sixth article of the featy of Glient InfailliwhereMrsir\ / ^vl \.A l< I'' "! 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