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FISHER'S
Fix this textCOLONIAL MAGAZINE.
Fix this textA SKETCH OF THE NORTH-WESTERN BOUNDARY
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Fix this textPHYSICALLY, GEOGRAPHICALLY, POLITICALLY, & COMMERCIALLY CONSIDERED.
Fix this textBY A LATE RESIDENT THERE.
Fix this text[communicated.]
Fix this textHaving been the first who (in a series of lelters published in the Times
Fix this textpapers at the close of the last year) awakened public attention to the
Fix this textunsettled question of dispute between G’eat Britain and America,
Fix this textthen so little heeded and understood, but yet so influential on the
Fix this textinterests of this country —if the possession of her own rightful soil, the
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Fix this textand watchful examination of all the bearings of the whole case to be
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Fix this textI imagine, now that the subject has engrossed so much public notice,
Fix this textthat it would not be unacceptable or inexpedient if I were to give my
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Fix this textAt the commencement, I may venture to offer a remark on Lord
Fix this textAshburton’s mission, and its termination. Whether it constituted an
Fix this textitem in his lordship’s instructions, to bring to a satisfactory and perma-
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Fix this textI do not know, neither is it very material now to inquire ; suffice it to
Fix this textsay, that the grand vexata questio, which immediately pressed, and
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