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BOOK II.

VIEW OF THE GEOGRAPHICAL BOUNDARIES AND NATURAL HISTORY OF BRITISH AMERICA.

CHAPTER I.

General View of British America—Configuration—Physical Aspect, 8m.

THE British possessions in North America, are, the islands of Newfoundland, Cape Breton, Prince Ed- ward Island, and Anticosti; the provinces of Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, and the Canadas ; the region of Labrador, and the territory west of Hudson’s Bay.

By the treaty of 1783 with the republic of the United States, the construction of which is inVOlVed in much ambiguity, the river St Croix, on the sea- coast, and a line due north from a monument erected at its source, to the highlands, (evidently Mars Hill,) and from thence, dividing the waters of the rivers which fall into the St Lawrence, from those that fall into the Atlantic, to the north—westernmost head of Connecticut river; thence, down the middle of that river, to the 45th degree of north latitude; from thence, by a line due west, until it strike the river Iroquois, and thence, down to the St Lawrence,