...western boundary of the state of Missouri ; thence south with the western boundary of said state (being a meridian line passing through the middle of the mouth of the Kansas river) to the place of beginning." And in the solution of this great problem the delegates in the convention...

...that river, in the middle of the m nel thereof, to the parallel of latitude of 3(3° 30'; thence west, same to a point where the said parallel is intersected by a meridia through the middle of the mouth of the Kanzas river, where the s ties into the Missouri river;...