Word: essequibo
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...maps of South America, said the speaker, are some of them relevant to the subject in hand; others are irrelevant. Of the former there are four classes. The first class sets the boundary of Guiana at the Essequibo River; the others vary largely in their conclusions. Of the set which places the boundary at the Essequibo we have five maps-an American atlas (1796), a Paris map (1781), a London atlas, published the year of the cession of Guiana to England, a French geographer's map (1803), and a Caracas map of obscure and doubtful origin...
...next set of maps accepts a boundary starting at Cape Nassau. These were probably constructed on the theory that, although the Essequibo was the real boundary, geographers must represent facts as they exist. There are seventeen maps of this kind, many of them by men of established reputation...
...final arrangements after the Napoleonic wars the King of the Netherlands agreed to give over the territory about the Essequibo River to the possession of England. No mention of the boundaries was made until in 1840 there arose a dispute. A few months later the British government sent out to have a boundary surveyed. Lord Aberdeen, who commissioned the survey, was anxious to have natural boundaries. Schomburgk, the explorer, followed the Barina River farther than it had seemed to extend before. By this survey considerable more territory was included as British possessions...