 | Timothy Walker - Law - 1882 - 850 pages
...miles ; and all that space and circuit of land lying from the sea-coast of the precinct aforesaid, up into the land throughout from sea to sea, west and north-west." — Land Laws, US 23. Under this grant Virginia claimed all that portion of the North-western Territory,... | |
 | Ohio State Board of Agriculture - Agriculture - 1883 - 962 pages
...language: "And all that space and circuit of land, lying from the sea coast of the precinct aforesaid, up into the land throughout from sea to sea, west and north-west." There are few courts that would not interpret this passage as including the Ohio Valley. However, all... | |
 | George Bancroft - United States - 1883 - 660 pages
...the company extended two hundred miles to the north, and as many to the south of Old Point Comfort, " up into the land throughout from sea to sea, west and north-west," including " all the islands lying within one hundred miles along the coast of both seas of the precinct."... | |
 | Alexander Pope Humphrey - Northwest, Old - 1884 - 36 pages
...two hundred miles, and all that space and circuit lying from the sea coast of the precinct aforesaid up into the land throughout from sea to sea west and northwest." This was indeed a royal grant. From sea to sea, from the Bay of Chesapeake west across great mountains... | |
 | United States - 1891 - 800 pages
...200 miles, and all that space and circuit of land lying from the sea coast of the precinct aforesaid up into the land throughout from sea to sea, west and northwest." 3. The documents and papers relating to Louisiana so far as they pertain to Illinois. 4. The documents... | |
 | Geological Survey (U.S.) - Geology - 1885 - 792 pages
...hundred miles, and all that space and circuit of land lying from the sea coast of the precinct aforesaid up into the land, throughout from sea to sea, west and northwest, and also all the islands lying within one hundred miles along the coast of both seas of the precinct aforesaid.... | |
 | Johns Hopkins University - History - 1885 - 606 pages
...miles ; and all that space and circuit of land lying froin the sea-coast of the precinct aforesaid, up into the land throughout, from sea to sea, west and north-west ; and Maryland's Influence upon also all the islands lying within one hundred miles along the coast of both... | |
 | Herbert Baxter Adams - Maryland - 1885 - 116 pages
...indented line of the coast. The chief ambiguity, however, lay in the interpretation of the words " up into the land throughout, from sea to sea, west and north-west." From which point was the north-west line to be drawn, from the point on the sea-coast two hundred miles... | |
 | Herbert Baxter Adams - Maryland - 1885 - 126 pages
...indented line of the coast. The chief ambiguity, however, lay in the interpretation of the words " up into the land throughout, from sea to sea, west and northwest." From which point was the northwest line to be drawn, from the point on the sea-coast two hundred miles... | |
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Comfort, all along the sea coast to the southward two hundred miles, and all that space and circuit of land, lying from the sea coast of the precinct aforesaid, up into the land, throughout from sea to sea, west and northwest... 
