ARCHIBALD CAMPBELL, Commissioner Northwestern Boundary Survey to Lewis Cass, February 10, 1858

Mr. Campbell to Mr. Cass.

Captain Prevost finally proposed such a compromise as would throw within the territory of the United States all the islands but *San Juan, the largest and most valuable of the group. Being fully satisfied, from my own observation, that the Canal de Haro is the main channel, and consequently “the channel” intended by the treaty, and being supported in this opinion by indisputable contemporaneous evidence of the highest official character, I declined to accede to any compromise.[110]Lucid statement of Mr. Campbell on the channel of the treaty.