Red Line Map

a map made by the French man D’Anville in 1746. It had been sent to Vergennes, the French Minister, by Franklin in 1782, and was discovered among the Paris archives by Jared Sparks. A strong red line drawn near the ridge, in which the Kennebec and Per nobscot Rivers rise, more than favored the English claims, respecting the northeast boundary of the United States. Sparks sent it to Webster, who was anxious lest the English should hear of it. It was used in a secret se ion of the Senate, and with the Maine commi ioners to ipduce a ratification of the treaty, and was afterward made a ground of reproach against Webster by opponents of the treaty.