Sharp County record., 1880-02-19
The Most Northern Point Of fl,
States.

Va llr
States.
If the question were asked, n
the most northern part Of Il.
States, except Alaska? perb,,,
would say, The line of 49 dec
Lake of the Woods to the Sfn,
Fuca. But that answer would,
rect. There is a point where a.
States reaches 40 deg. % see
north latitude. 1t is in lODs,
deg. ii min. 80 sec. west tep
wich.
In other words, at Lake ofthl
in Minnesota, our TERRITORY IN
small area reaching beyond
more than % miles. This n
creScence, jutting out into Britt
lea, is recently put down upon
our maps, but | have not "a
many of them. 1t is indicated
roughly, upon Cases large map
United States and upon the Id
published by the Governmental
by the Land Office. obseryei
Warren's School Biographies
The map which shows tins
rately is perhaps the Map Of Nj.
published by the St. Paul BID
Stationary Company, at STD
most of the maps the Lake 9th
is by no means correct, Or /
proximately so.
After learning the fact tnat on
try does hold this little juttmg
both land and water, the queStm
How did it happen that the
should take this circuitOuS iii
The answer is as follows: nt !
tive treaty of Paris, signed (Sqa
3, 1889 by John Adams, DsIz
ley, Benjamin Franklin, and I
Article ii. defines the bOundo
this country. In this article Weta
from Lake Superior westwss
boundary is given as follows;
s'Thence through the middAg
Lake and the water cOmmunlall
tween it and the Lake of the 7
thence through the said lake b =
northeastern point thereof aH
thence in a due west course tO1d
Mississippi"
Evidently it was then suppose
the source of the MississipH
the north and west of this point I
however, it was subsequentu
tanned that the headwaters Of ~
were to the southwark, the
made to run from this "mos !
western point of said lake. due1
latitude 40 deg.
We next find allusion to the u
the treaty of " "Amity, COmme
Navigation" signed at Londq, |,
10, 1794) by Grenville and ~
The 4th Article proposes that' i
as it is uncertain whether then
sippi extends so far to the nOlni
to be intersected by a line to D
due west from the Lake Of the i
measures shall be taken 40
joint survey" and "the two Prl
thereupon proceed to amlcaDs
tions to regulate the bounaSIl
that quarter
By the 7th Article OF tne
Client it was agreed to refer 70
sioners " the boundary line HJ'
Superior to the Lake of the N@l
1927 the commissioners MADE u
report, with maps of actual suS
Lake Huron to the Lake OF 'D i
In this report they say: .,,,
1.-The extreme northweStssn en-
the Lake of the Woods Is uvH III
be at lat. n. 40 deg. % NM d u
lon. w. 80 deg. IA min. 30 -,
in conformity with the treaty !. W Z ,
having been ascertained tOTI n
parallel 40 deg, a line
due south from 1t VI, u
40 deg, on which parai,fs u. J
to be continued to the Rocky ~ m
No means have yet been taAt' NJ 1
cate the boundary westw''u
Lake of the Woods. " p; ;
The commissioners Wei' n
Porter and Anthony Barclay y,orss Nj
was made from these aSSITt T,p,
the Webster Ashburton l'a
1912. A,trsf
1t is to be hoped that all ,s la'Ts 4,
Biographies and large IL, map ! M
this boundry.-PrQt. Bm' 49, a. i
N. E. Journal Of Ednca'wN. /
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