CASE OF GREAT BRITAIN. 57 



From this it was urged that the words "Pacific Oceau" 

 in the Conventions were used with great care, so as to 

 reserve under the exclusive jurisdiction of Eussia the waters 

 of Behring Sea. 



It is, liowever, to be noted in studying any series of maps 

 chronologically arranged, particularly those published be- 

 fore the middle of the present century, that Behring Sea is 

 frequently without any special name, though the adjoining 

 Sea of Okhotsk is in almost every instance clearly desig- 

 nated. 



On various charts issued by the United States Hydro- 

 graphic Oftice, including the latest and most j^erfect editions 

 now in actual use, the expression "Pacific" or "North 

 Pacific Ocean " is used as including Behring Sea. This 

 appears from the titles of such charts, of which the follow- 

 ing may be referred to: 



No. 009. Published March 1883 at the Hydrographic Office, 

 Washington, D. C: 



" Pacific Ocean. Behring Sea, Plover Bay, from a sur- 

 vey by Lieutenant Maximov, Imperial Russian Navy, ISTC" 



(Plover Bay is situated on the Asiatic coast, near the 

 entrance to Behring Strait.) 

 73 No. 910. Published October 1882 at the Hydro- 



graphic Office, Washington, D. C: 



"North Pacific Ocean. Anadir Bay, Behring Sea. 

 From a Chart bv Engineer Bulklev, of New York, in 

 1865," &c. 



(Anadir Bay is situated between latitudes 64° and 65° 

 on the Asiatic side of Behring Sea.) 



Similar evidence is aftbrded by the title page of the 

 work issued by the same Hydrographic Office in 1869, as 

 follows: 



" Directory of Behring Sea and the coast of Alaska. . . . 

 Arranged from the Directory of the Pacific Ocean." 



The British Admiralty Chart of Behring Sea, corrected 

 up to November, 1889, but originally compiled in 1884 (No. 

 24(50), is likewise entitled as follows: 



"N(n"th-west Pacific. Kamchatka to Kadiak Island, 

 including Behring Sea and Strait." 



The definitions touching the Pacific Ocean, Behring Sea, 

 &c., to be found in gazetteers, dictionaries, and geographical 

 works, both of the present and past dates, moreover, show 

 conclusively that Behring Sea was, at the time of the 

 Conventions, and is now, understood to form an integral 

 part of the I'acific Ocean. 



Sucli formal definitions are naturally more trustworthy 

 than inferences drawn from the construction of maps. 



A few of these will suffice, though many more might be 

 quoted : 



Beering's Straits, which is the passage from the North Pacific Ocean Malham, John, 

 1o tlip Ai-cric Spa "I^aval Gazet- 



TO tiie Aicnc &ea. ^^^^„ lquJou^ 1795. 



Beering's Island. An island in the Pacific Oceau. Brookes, R., 



'•General Gazet- 

 teer," 12tli ed., Loudon, 1802. 

 Kamschatka. Bounded east and south by Pacific. 



Stilles Meer. Vom 5 nordl. Br. an bis zur Beriugsstrasse anfwarts . Galletti, J. G. 



(• +- 1 <■+• t:+ A.."Alljieiiieine8 



Sters neltlge ftturnie. Geographisclies Worterbuoh/' Pesth, 1822. 



