V. . Beatty

The beginning of the last line is not disputed. The only question is where it terminates, and where was the corner made for it. It is (377) proven to have been made at the point of the island, very considerably out of the course of this line, and nearer to the beginning than any part of this line is. We must, in the first place, attend to the rules established by judicial determinations for the settlement of boundary cases, which are, that if a course and distance be called for, terminating at a natural boundary, as a swamp, island, mountain, or the like, there the line must terminate,…