Norwich bulletin., 1920-12-28
Then 1t is Genuine

iten-steckholders on both sides of the, line. The single scheme now under dis cussion for the contraction of canals Co | handle ocsan.goine ships foreshadows q work that would fivzi In magnitude and | importance even the tpoch-rnnking en- | gineerilg feats at Panama. With huge | canals connecting the waters of the | Great Lakes and the St Lawrence. ships | capable of negotiating any weather could | saiI with the ore, coal and Erain of the we&tern United States and CanRda, d. reetly to any port of the Seven Seas
 Discussion by the two countries of the feasibility of engsx ring jointly in the de. veiopnnent of their broader waters Is in contrast with some of the stormy incs- dents Ia which the boundary has figured. .Knowa in recent years as the border without forts and come at last 10 he regarded as line of amity and frisnd- ship. 1t is perhaps not ftneraily realised now that until the cumulative efforts Of years resulted net long ago in the set tienent of souns louG-standing dispstss the Unitsd States-canadian boundary vas | the source of almost continual nnfsunder- standing. Many times shers were un. | pleasant incidents, twice the countries were on the verge of war, and for well | over A hundred years after the close of the Revolutionary war diplomats. com. nissioners. and even neutral kinTs and | enpercrs acting as arbitratcrs were kept busy trying tv ssr7ighten out the many Bnarls Into which q bol der line can become tangled.
 Much of the trouble In reeard 10 the boundary resulted from iEnerznee of the l tEcgraphy of the country on the part of the carly neeotators. The St Creix river which the earliest treaty stated
 should form the eastern line of Maine
 Ut the very starting point of the Inter. l national boundary was net satisfnctori- ly identified at nrst, and this caused fric. lien for some years. ''e--
 "A seosns geographIeai srror-the as. sumption that the Lake of the Woods
 drained Into Lake supefior-ls respcnsibi,
 Tor the rather indefinite boundary of
 tmall lakes and brooks between the twe larger lakes. Tho eelier that the Nils. I sippi river had its source in Canada. and field notes in accordance with the belief has brought about the axistence of (
 tract Of land of q hundred square miles
 tut of on peninsulh on the northern
 shore of the Lake of the Woods, prac.
 ticaiiy surrounded by Canadian terrfsor,
 and many miles across the water iron stiier land of the United States.
 "In connection with stiii zasther United states.C Canadian b6undary-thzt between
 southern Alaska and Britlsh Coiumhis--a mistaken impression of early Russian traders has given the United States a boundary running heiter-skelter over foot
 hills and ridges when It was believed Co
 foliewa | mountain watershed, logical lssographieal boundary.
 l. Prom ifs eastern start in an arm Q.
 Fundy, bay of titanic tides. to its west
 trn end in the Straits of Fuca, entrane'
 le Puget Sound. the Cfnzdian boundarl embo6ies numerous feztures of geoerhph ieai and scenic interest It strikes
 through the great Maine woods, along th' channel of the St Lawrence and amoni its Thousands Islands, up thu gorge ant ever the falls of Niagara. thfou1h th' wide expanses and the narrow straits e , ihe Great Lakea. and across the charm
 Ing, ferest-rimmed Lake of The Woods 1 Much of the surveyed Tine west of thl Lake of the Woods iB over more or les , featureless plains. but farther westwarl l It drives with me disregard fer oosta clos straight across one of the most rug ! yed and majestic portions of the Rookie
 to meet the Pacific through the island strewu Puget Sound. ~
 This latter part Of the line westwar'
 from the crest of the Rockies was Ii
 dispute for forty years. About it. il
 the presidential campaign of 1sft. va
 forged the ringing. ailIterRtive slogan
 f'ifty-four ferty or fight In spite c 8 the fact that the party which made tn : sioEaA won the election. the newly chose, : 1sfs exteadinS the forty-nlnth parall, : to the Pacific
 i. 'The Canadian boundary between th S Atlantic and Pacific oceans is s.soo milo c long. more than twice the length of th -I