APPENDIX TO CASE OP GREAT BRITAIN. 



269 



Extracts fkom the •' Historical Review of the Formation of the Rus- 

 sian- Amkkican Company, and Their Proceedin^gs up to the Present Time" 

 (in Russian), by P. Tikhmenieff, St. Petkrsburgh, 1863, Part I, Pages 252, 250. 



[Trauslation.] 



According' to reports from the Colony the number of Eussians, half- 

 breeds, and natives under the admiuistratiou of the Company was, on 

 the 1st January, 1819, as follows: 



NATIVES. 



Locality. 



At Kadiak , 



At Novarlihaiigol.-k (.Mciit.si 



Aliaksiiitsi 



T.sliuj;a t sli 



Kenaitsi 



Cgalentsi 



!Miediiovtsi 



On the Fox (Lisy) Islaiid.s 



On the Seal Lslands (Aleuts). 



Totals 



Males. 



, 4t^3 

 285 

 402 

 372 

 723 

 51 

 294 

 464 

 188 



Femu.es. 



I,7(i9 

 61 



467 

 IScS 

 748 

 66 

 273 

 559 

 191 



4,322 



Total. 



3,252 

 346 

 869 

 360 



1,471 

 117 

 567 



1,023 

 379 



8,384 



43 



No. 6. 



Spekch by the Hon. Charles Sumner, of Massachusetts, on the Cession of 

 Russian Amkiuca to the United States in 1867. H. R. Ex. Doc. 177, IOth 

 Congress, 2nd Session, Pages 124-189. 



Mr. President : You have just listened to the reading of the Treaty 

 by which Kussia cedes to the United States all her possessions on the 

 North American Continent in consideration of 7,L*00,000 dollars, to be 

 ])aid by the United States. On the one side is the cession of a vast 

 country with its jurisdiction and its resources of all kinds, on the other 

 side is the purchase-money. Such is this transaction on its face. 



BOUNDARIES AND CONFIGURATION. 



In endeavouring to estimate its character I am glad to begin with what 

 is clear and beyond question. I refer to the boundaries tixed by the 

 Treaty. Commencing at the parallel of 51° 40' north latitude, so 

 famous in our history, the line ascends Portland Channel to the moun- 

 tains, which it follows on their summits to the point of intersection 

 with the 111° we.st longitude, which line it ascends to the Frozen 

 Ocean, or, if you ])lease, to the North Pole. This is the eastern bound- 

 ary, separating this region Irom the 13ritish possessions, and it is 



