Show THE each nation has way of delineating its frontier pillars and statue statute mot most commonly died used where natural boundaries do not exist most fam farm oui ous of all marks london happy la Is the country which possesses natural boundaries england la is better oft off in this respect than almost any other nation for the whole of her 2755 2 miles of frontier ie is guarded b the sea next comes italy with aith 2 miles of coastline and the alia alta like a wall mail aboss her tier bortl em boundary contract contrast these case cases with those of 11 germany and austria the latter countr has a it frontier lino line of about miles of which 2996 ie Is lana ever ter mile of which must be guarde against the encroachments of her neighbors germany Is almost equi squall til badly off for her seacoast line Is on miles 22 miles of land frontier border liport russia austria grunte I 1 holland and del bel glum and far the larger portion of till tills art it distance Is not by mountains biers or any other nat ural boundary the germans guard their frontiers front leri with ith unceasing Vigil vigilance liLe c especially hat that which faces faes biance along the southern border of eleasa I 1 and find france ts Is by no means behind in A L post of iron and wood her precautions the steep mountains guard a portion of this dintler nt ler but the rest Is flat country arl the boundary una line runs through foresta forests and fields where the line runs through woods moods a broad belt has bea ben it cleared and Is kept tree free of all undergrowth along the center at distances of about a quarter of a mile are erected stone posts very ery like ordinary milestones whenever a road runs along the fron ter tier it its js marked by tall m wooden poets posts pal painted on one side with the french and upon the oiher other with ith the germin germ in colors customs houses stand not only on the railways but upon all main lines of traffic and are well guarded by lolice and troops hows rows are of constant occurrence the russo cerman german frontier Is marked in similar fai fashion tilon and here troubles are of frequent occurrence for the hungry III I 1 aid cossacks cos ere are constantly raiding over the border berder in search of poultry and pigs while the boundary bet between Neen the states and canada follows for man hundreds of emilei the river sl st lawrence and the great I 1 lakes akes there Is a 4 vast distance of prairie land beyond with no natural demarcation this Is artificially dellin delimited itei by pillars of iron and find wood placed a mile apart these are tire supplied alternately by the canadian and united states govern ments merits and run from lake of the woods to the red river valley be jond ond mounds of or earth nd rid cairns of stone are used ab u marke marks the pillars are hollow castings eight feet high eight inches square at the base four at the top toi in me are ar well mell seasoned cadir posts fach pillar Is inscribed in raised letters on the north convention of jondon on the south oct 1818 the stole cairns are seven feet high eight right feet at the base and like it pyramid far i Is used where bere stone Is 16 net the most limous of all boundary boun dar marke marks in song and stor or Is the pillar stone cairn seven feet high of 0 1 karec ll which marks the line between russia and find siberia it stands between Ekaterin burg in russia and tiamen in siberia and Is in on oil the main road along which tens of thousand antip of exiles have passed it Is an obe lisk of brick about sixteen feet in on the act est side it bears ill 1 russian characters the word europe I 1 on the riber asli asia |