The Political Life of the Right Honourable George Canning: From 1822 to the Period of His Death, in August, 1827. Together with a Short Review of Foreign Affairs Subsequently to that Event, Том 3Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown and Green, 1831 |
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... follow the summit of the mountains situated parallel to the Coast , as far as the point of inter- section of the 141st degree of W. longitude , and thence along that meridian line was to be prolonged to the Frozen Ocean . The 4th ...
... follow the summit of the mountains situated parallel to the Coast , as far as the point of inter- section of the 141st degree of W. longitude , and thence along that meridian line was to be prolonged to the Frozen Ocean . The 4th ...
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