Question 1-2
Alaskan Boundary Settlement
by Joseph Horatio Chant,
When the United States purchased Alaska from Russia in 1867, it bought an unclear boundary line. The line
between the Alaskan panhandle and the Canadian Yukon had been badly described in an 1825 treaty
between Russia and Great Britain. No one was concerned until gold was discovered in the Yukon. Then the
line quickly took on importance. The most accessible route to the gold fields in Canada was via the Alaskan
panhandle coastline.-from The Progressive Era (2005)
My neighbor's farm and mine lie side by side,
And nothing should our mutual trust divide;
But they who made th' original survey
5 Were guided by the stars, the records say.
So that the line that marks out our domain
Is indistinct, and puzzling doubts remain.
Our farms are large, and portions near the line
with melu enil and chinted ennice and nine
O
3
This poem is best classified as
O an ode.
O a sonnet.
an epic poem.
a narrative poem.