| United States - 1817 - 514 pages
...the Woods westwardly in lat. 49, in which case the fifth article would be nugatory, as the line from the Lake of the Woods to the nearest source of the Mississippi, would run through territory which on both sides of ihe li»e would belong to the United States. Annexed... | |
| Thomas Jefferson - Presidents - 1829 - 656 pages
...its waters, the Missouri of course, and terminating in the line drawn from the north western point of the Lake of the Woods to the nearest source of the...United States. We have some claims, to extend on the sea coast westwardly to the Rio Norte or Bravo, and better, to go eastwardly to the Rio Perdido, between... | |
| Thomas Jefferson - 1829 - 1102 pages
...its waters, the Missouri of course, and terminating in the line drawn from the north-western point of the Lake of the Woods to the nearest source of the...United States. We have some claims, to extend on the sea coast westwardly to the Rio Norte or Bravo, and better, to go eastwardly to the Rio Perdido, between... | |
| Thomas Jefferson - United States - 1829 - 554 pages
...its waters, the Missouri of course, and terminating in the line drawn from the north-western point of the Lake of the Woods to the nearest source of the...settled between Great Britain and the United States. We nave some claims, to extend on the sea coast westwardly to the Rio Norte or Bravo, and better, to go... | |
| Royal Geographical Society (Great Britain) - Geography - 1843 - 508 pages
...waters — the Missouri of course — and terminating in a line drawn from the north-western point of the Lake of the Woods to the nearest source of the...settled between Great Britain and the United States" (Jefferson's Correspondence ; Aug. 12, 1803, vol. iii. p. 519). The purchase in its terms included... | |
| Thomas Falconer - History - 1845 - 60 pages
...lands on the western side of the Mississippi, inclosing all its waters—the Missouri, of course—and terminating in the line drawn from the north-western...States. We have some claims to extend on the sea-coast westthe hands of Spain, and that it had when France possessed it, and such as it should be after the... | |
| John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell - 1845 - 604 pages
...I deem not admitting question, are the highlands on the western side of the Mississippi, enclosing all its waters — the Missouri of course — and...settled between Great Britain and the United States.' And in some negotiations which took place four years afterwards, he desired the omission of a clause... | |
| American literature - 1845 - 606 pages
...I deem not admitting question, are the highlands on the western side of the Mississippi, enclosing all its waters — the Missouri of course — and...settled between Great Britain and the United States.' And in some negotiations which took place four years afterwards, he desired the omission of a clause... | |
| John George Cochrane - 1845 - 642 pages
...I deem not admitting question, are the highlands on the western side of the Mississippi, enclosing all its waters — the Missouri of course — and...settled between Great Britain and the United States.' The Oregon Territory. 509 And in some negotiations vrhich took pkce four years afterwards, he desired... | |
| Travers Twiss - Northwest boundary of the United States - 1846 - 304 pages
...its waters, [the Missouri of course,] and terminating in the line drawn from the north-west point of the Lake of the Woods to the nearest source of the...settled between Great Britain and the United States." This treaty, however, was never ratified, most probably in consequence of the cession of Louisiana... | |
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