Word: guianas
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Dates: during 1896-1896
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Professor Macvane lectured last evening before a large audience in the Fogg Art Museum lecture room on "The Guiana Boundary Question." He began by describing the physical characteristics of the country. The coast for fifty miles inland is a low marshy country, suited for the cultivation of sugar. There it begins to slope up till it reaches at its highest point a height of 6000 feet above sea level...
Lecture. The Guiana Boundary Question. Professor Macvane. Lecture Room of the Fogg Art Museum...
Lecture. The Guiana Boundary Question. Professor Macvane. Lecture Room of the Fogg Art Museum...
...Rice, ibid, 723,- (y) No danger that this case will furnish a precedent for further advances dangerous to us by Great Britain.- (x) This advance (if advance it is) is under a bona fide boundary dispute which existed before the British conquest of Dutch Guiana in 1814: Maps in Harvard, Boston Public and Athenxum libraries of dates 1657-1814.- (1) British claims have not been progressively extended: Venezuelan Memorandum in U. S. Senate Ex. Does. 50th Cong. 1st Session Vol. 11. No. 226, pp. 23-37, Venezuela Memorandum in Foreign Relations...
...treaty of Munster, between Spain and Holland, it was agreed that each country should keep the possessions it had already in South America. The Dutch had settled to a considerable extent in Guiana, and, when the independence of Holland was acknowledged in the above treaty Holland was allowed to keep her possessions. Now the people of Venezuela point to this treaty with considerable confidence. But in reality no definite mention of what these possessions were is made in the treaty of Munster...