The Decision of the King of the Netherlands Considered in Reference to the Right
The Decision of the King of the Netherlands Considered in Reference to the Right
William P William Pitt Preble
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" And to tliis moment the southern boundary of Canada f-om the bar/ des Chaleurs to the sources of Connecticut river is onli/ made known by referring to that description. Thus for twenty years prior to tlie Treaty ot fteace and for a series of years afterwai-ds in i>roclamations of the King, in acts of parliament, and in the public commissions to the Governors of the province, the words and description "the hiiililands which divide the rivers which "empty thetnselves into the river St. Lawrence... from those which "fall into the sea" or Atlantic Ocean had l)ecome exclusively appro- priated and were universally known as solely applicable to that divid- ing ridge or Higne des versants, ^^ which bounds the basin of the St. Lawrence on tlie south side of that river. As the King of Great Britain, in October, 1763, determined to fix and establish the theretofore unsettled boundary of Canada, by a natural and well defined line ; so afterwards in "November of the same year he in like manner determined to settle all controversy as to the western boundary of Nova Scotia.
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