This is great. The treaty referred to the “northwestern most point” when everyone thought the lake was more or less round but in practice there is no single una

This is great. The treaty referred to the “northwestern most point” when everyone thought the lake was more or less round but in practice there is no single unambiguous resolution. When I return to work, I want to put a print of the annotated 1912 survey map (showing all of the various compromises and treaty amendments) on my office wall as a reminder that all contract language is, at some level, an imprecise abstraction.