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When the time came to run the boundary line, the American and Mexican commissioners could not agree. So the United States paid ten million dollars more and received an additional strip of land between the Rio Grande and the Colorado rivers. This gave the United States its present southern boundary. This agreement was made in 1853 by James Gadsden for the United States, and the land bought is usually called the Gadsden Purchase.
但在談及國界時，雙方的外交官沒有達成一致，為此，美國又付出1000多萬美元，并獲得里約·格蘭德與科羅拉多河之間的一段狹長的土地，這使得美國擁有了其現(xiàn)在的南部邊界。這個協(xié)議于1853年由詹姆斯·加茲登代表美國達成，因此這塊買來的土地一般被稱為"加茲登購買地"。
338. The Oregon Question.
338．俄勒岡問題
It was not only in the Southwest that boundaries were disputed; in the Northwest also there was a long controversy which was settled while Polk was President. Oregon was the name given to the whole region, between Spanish and Mexican California and the Russian Alaska. The United States and Great Britain each claimed to have the best right to Oregon. As they could not agree as to their claims, they decided to occupy the region jointly. As time went on American settlers and missionaries began to go over the mountains to Oregon. In 1847 seven thousand Americans were living in the Northwest.
不僅僅在西南部有邊界爭端，在西北部也有類似的問題長期存在，珀爾卡總統(tǒng)在任職期間解決了這些問題。西北部這個地區(qū)的總名稱是俄勒岡，它處于西班牙、墨西哥的加利福尼亞和俄國的阿拉斯加之間，美國與大不列顛都宣稱有最好的理由擁有對俄勒岡的主權(quán)，由于雙方不能達成一致，兩國決定共同占有這個地區(qū)。隨著時間推移，美國殖民者和傳教士開始越過山脈到達俄勒岡，1847年有7000美國人居住在西北部。
