| Show IRK MARK THE BOUNDARY BOUN DARY Each Nation Has Way of Delineating Delineating Delineating Deline Deline- Its Frontier Pillars and Statues Most MOlt Commonly Used Where Natural Boundaries Do Not Exist Exist Most Most Famous Famous Fam Fam- ous OUI of All Marks London Happy London Happy is tho country which possesses natural bou boundaries darles I England Is better better- off In this rO than almost any other nation for the whole of her 2755 miles mUes of frontier Is guarded by the sea Next comes Italy with 2472 miles mUes of coastline and the Alps like a wall across her northern northern north north- ern boundary Contrast these cases with those of Germany and Austria The latter country has a frontier line of about miles of which 2996 Is land every mile of which must be guarded guarde against the encroachments of her neighbors Germany is almost equally badly off for her seacoast line Is only miles mUes while 2255 miles mUes of land lund frontier border upon Russia Austria Switzerland France Holland and Belgium Belgium Bel Bel- gium and far the larger portion of this great distance Is not protected by mountains rivers or any other natural natural nat nat- ural boundary The Germans guard their frontiers with unceasing vigilance especially that which faces France along the southern border of Elsass and France Is by no means behind In 8 I I tI t tI tI I I ti i I 1 I I II I I I I.- I. Post of Iron and Wood her precautions The steep mountains guard a portion of this frontier but the rest Is fiat flat country and the boundary line runs through forests and fields Where the line runs through woods a broad belt has been cleared and andIs andis Is Is kept free of all undergrowth Along the center enter at distances of about a quarter of a mile are erected stone posts very like ordinary milestones Whenever a road runs along the frontier frontier fron fron- tier it is marked by tall wooden posts painted on one side with the French and upon the other with the German colors Customs houses stand not only on the railways but upon all main mainlines mainlines lines JInes of traffic and are well guarded by police and troops Rows are re of constant occurrence The Russo-German Russo frontier Is marked In similar fashion and here troubles are of frequent occurrence for the hungry paid Ill-paid cossacks are constantly raiding over the border in search of poultry and pigs While the boundary between the United States and Canada follows for many hundreds of miles the River St. St Lawrence and the Great Lakes there is a vast distance of prairie land beyond be be- beyond beyond yond with no natural demarcation This is artificially delimited by pillars of Iron and wood placed a mile apart These are supplied alternately by the Canadian and United States governments governments govern govern- ments and run from Lake of the Woods Toads to the Red River Valley Bey Beyond Be Be- y yond ond nd mounds of earth and cairns of ot stone are arp used as as marks The pillars are hollow castings eight feet high eight Inches square at nt the base four at the top Inside I are well seasoned cedar posts Each pillar is inscribed In raised l letters on the north Convention of or London on the south Oct 1818 1815 The TIe stone cairns are seven feet high eight feel feet at the base and shaped like a pyramid Ear Ears Earh l Is used where used where stone Is not a available valla hIe The he most famous of ot all boundary marks in song anti and stor story is the Pillar V Stone Cairn Seven Feet High of Farewell which marks the tho line between Russia and Siberia It stands between in Russia and in Siberia and is on the main road along which tens of thousands of exiles cines have passed It is an obe obelisk obelisk obelisk lisk of ot brick about sixteen feet teet In 17 height On the west side it bears In 10 Russian characters the word Europe on the other Asia |
