Costa Rica-Panama arbitration; argument of Costa Rica before the arbitrator, Hon. Edward Douglass White, chief justice of the United States, under the ... the Republic of Costa Rica and the Volume 4 - Brossura
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1913 edition. Excerpt: ... the evidence and authority of a Bishop and of a Governor of Nicaragua, of a Governor of Portobelo, and even more, by that of a neo-Granadian of the eminence of Senor Fernandez Madrid, a specialist in matters of that character, who points out Punta Gorda as the boundary, although he does carry it very much farther to the south than the extreme limit designated by two other illustrious neo-Granadians--Senores Paredes and Perez, referred to below. Kieper placed the boundary at the Indio River. (3) The southern boundary of the Mosquito Coast was located at Bluefields by the following: Don Jose Domas y Valle; the "Carta Esji'rica" of 1805, 1809; Brue; Navarrete; Fitz-Roy; George Squier; Abbott Lawrence; the Brigadier Abarca, and Codazzi; that is to say, by four authorities of Spanish origin, one British, two North American, one French and one from a Colombian official source. (4) The frontier is put at "Pearl Lagoon" by the author of the pamphlet entitled "The Mosquito Indian and his Golden River" (1699); Thompson; Courtenay De Kalb; Don Victoriano de D. Paredes, and Dr. Don Felipe Perez. The two latter--neo-Granadians--give great weight to the allegation by reason of the character with which the first of these two was invested as Charge d'Affaires of New Granada in the United States at the time the publication was made, and the fact that the second, when he wrote, was the official geographer of his country. (5) Cape Gracias a Dios and the Segovia River were respectively adopted as the center of the Mosquito Coast by the Irishman, Colville Cairns, and by the Audiencia Judge Santaella. In view of the situation of those places, it is impossible that the southern boundary should have reached to the River San Juan. (6) The Secretary of State of the...
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