"Hairsplitting" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... those which fall into the Atlantic Ocean," meant according to the American reading a watershed which was a marshy plateau, and according to the British version a range of hills to the south which involved some keen hairsplitting as to the rivers they divided. The intentions of the parties to the original treaty were probably much as the Americans contended. From the standpoint of neighborly adjustment and the relative need for the land in question, ...
— The Canadian Dominion - A Chronicle of our Northern Neighbor • Oscar D. Skelton |
