The boundary lines of Kansas : an address by GeoWMartin, secretary of the State Historical Society, before the Old Settlers' Association at Alma, September 28, Independence, October 16, and at the banquet at Kansas City, Kan., October 18, 1909, in honor of the Wyandotte convention . east till itsjunction with the Missouri, which is in latitude 38°, 31, 13; here it is 340^yards wide, though it is wider a short distance above the mouth. The Mis-souri itself is about 500 yards in width; the point of union is low and subjectto inundations for 250 yards, it then rises a little above high-water mark
The boundary lines of Kansas : an address by GeoWMartin, secretary of the State Historical Society, before the Old Settlers' Association at Alma, September 28, Independence, October 16, and at the banquet at Kansas City, Kan., October 18, 1909, in honor of the Wyandotte convention . east till itsjunction with the Missouri, which is in latitude 38°, 31, 13; here it is 340^yards wide, though it is wider a short distance above the mouth. The Mis-souri itself is about 500 yards in width; the point of union is low and subjectto inundations for 250 yards, it then rises a little above high-water mark,and continues so as far back as the hills. On the south of the Kansas thehills or highlands come within one mile and a half of the river; on the northof the Missouri they do not approach nearer than several miles. Here is a description of the country about the mouth of the Kansas riverwhich is not far from a good description at the present time. The fieldnotes and plats of the original surveys of the lands of Jackson county aboutthe mouth of the river show the distance to the bluffs to be about the sameas given by Lewis and Clark. The claim that the Kansas river ever en-tered the Missouri near the present Union depot is here settled, by the The Boundary Lines of Kansas. 25. 26 Kansas State Historical Society. language rises a little above high-water mark, and continues so as farback as the hills. The contention that the mouth of the Kansas river was changed by theflood of 1844, and those following, cannot possibly affect the location of thestate line even as established, for the reason that the line was establishedand fixed more than twenty years before the occurrence of the said flood;and for the further reason that it was not changed on account of anychange in the mouth of the Kansas river caused by said floods, if anychange was caused thereby. No attempt has been made to change the line since its establishment in1823. It would be of no consequence whatever if it could be s
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