Rensselaer Republican, Volume 22, Number 43, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 June 1890 — A Well Marked Line. [ARTICLE]

A Well Marked Line.

The boundary line betweenthe United States and Canada is not “imaginary,” as most people suppose, says the St. Louis Globe-Democrat. The fact i*. the lino is distinctly marked, from Lake Michigan to Alaska by cairns, iron pillars, earth mounds and timber clearings. There are 386 of theOr marks between the Lake of the Woods and the base of the Rooky mountains. The British placed one post every two miles and the United States one between each British post. The p ysXj are of oast iron, and cast cm their faoes are the words “Convention of London, October 20, 1818.” Where the line crosses lakes, mountains of. stone* have been built projecting eight feet above high-water mark. In foreefct the Une is defined by feOn£ trees tin a epaoe a rod wide.