Excerpt from Survey of the Northwestern Boundary of the United States, 1857-1861 Nothing further, in Official documents, appears for nine years. The civil war turned attention to more urgent matters and this subject was dropped. In February, 1868, however, President Johnson sent to the Senate a long communication on the San Juan boundary question. This document (senate Ex. Doc. No. 29, Fortieth Congress, second session) of 280 pages, though dealing chiefly with the water boundary, nevertheless throws considerable light on the history Of the land boundary. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

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"Good fences make good neighbors" comes from Robert Frost's poem Mending Walls which relates to traditions and rituals antedating the Romans. The god of boundaries, which they named Terminus, was not invented by the Romans, but he became one of their important household gods. Annually Terminus was honored in a ritual which not only reaffirmed boundaries but which also provided the occasion for predetermined traditional festivities among neighbors.