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Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 506, 13 May 1909, Page 4

It was dccroed by the Convention of 1818,. nfad the Treaty of Washington of 1840, that tho boundary between tho United States and Canada from tho Lake of tho Woods to tho Pacific—a. distanco of 1270 miles—should follow tho forty-ninth parallel. The surveyors who hayo just completed the location of tho boundary have found that tho astronomical parallel varies from a direct circle around the earth, and Professor Otto Klotz explains tho curious fact that the line, instead of boiiiß straight, is at one point 800 feet 30Uth of tile direct oircle, and at another place 600 foot north. It was decidcd that tho astronomical parellel—or lino through places whero tho Polo is 41 degrees from tho zenith —should bo tho accoptcd boundary. Tliia decision was followed,, but local attraction in some. places deflects ttlio plumb lino,-and. therefore, the wraith, and tlio. astronomical forty-ninth parallel ■ proves to bo u quite irregular lino. For Clironio Chest Complaints, .' Wooda' Great Peppermint Cure, Is, fid., 2a, 64