160 ORAL ARGUMENT OF HON. EDWARD J. PHELPS. 



Mr. Phelps. — It may be — I really do not know, and Lord Hannen 

 of course would know better. The second map of Arrowsmith is dated 

 1794, and is probably a second edition of the same map and contains 

 the same desi^iuition of Behring tSea. 



Senator Morgan. — Is there the same reference to the Act? 



Mr. Phelps. — I do not know. I have no memorandum of that. 



Lord Hannen. — All I meant to say is that it relates to the mode of 

 publication. It has nothing to do with the map itself. It is the publi- 

 cation of it. 



Mr. Phelps. — Then you come to the map of 1802 which is given in 

 the list of the British Counter Case. It is called 



Chart of the Strait between Asia and America with the coast of Kamschatka. 



And it appears in an account of a geogra])hical and astronomical 

 expedition to the northern part of Kussia, and in that Behring Sea has 

 no distinctive name. There is an Arrowsmith map in which it is not 

 given separately, but Billing's Explorntion, while it carried him across, 

 was not directed to those waters. This is really little better than a 

 route map, and the Pacific Ocean shown as far south as 47° is not 

 named at all. Showing that this is intended as an illustration of that 

 route or as a Chart. 



In the fourth map (1804) the eastern part of Behring Sea is included 

 as far west as Behring Island without a se])arate name, and the Ocean 

 is called the North Pacific Ocean. This is a land mapof the Continents 

 of North and South America. It is not a general map as including 

 water divisions. 



Sir Charles Eussell. — There is a map of America of the same year 

 1804. 



Mr. Phelps. — Yes, I am about to mention that. That is a fifth map 

 called "a map of America". The same remarks apply. In that map 

 there is no specific name for Behring Sea. These are probably included 

 in Arrowsmith's General Atlas of 1804 mentioned in Mr. Blaine's list, 

 and very likely it may have appeared there. 



Now in 1810 there is an Arrowsmith map in 9 sheets, with corrections 

 to 1818; includes Behring Sea, but shows it as a large, blank, unnamed 

 space, and there is not a separate name. A large part of Behring Sea 

 is not included. It cuts oft about latitude 02°. He does not include 

 in the Pacific Ocean the Sea of Kamschatka, otherwise he would have 

 given the whole sea, and not limited his chart to latitude 02°. He 

 included the portion he did, because he found it necessary to take in 

 that part of the Pacific Ocean now known as the Gulf of Alaska. 



The 8th map, 1811, in the British Counter Case, a hydrographical 

 chart of the world by Arrowsmith, has Behring Sea named the Sea of 

 Kamschatka, and the North Pacific Ocean is given as a separate body 

 of water. This marks all the waters of the globe, and is not confined 

 to one sea. 



The 9th map in Mr. Blaine's list is an ArroAvsmith map of 1811, and 

 Behring Sea is there named the Sea of Kamschatka. 



The 10th map is 1818, of Arrowsmith, and Behring Sea is there 

 named the Sea of Kamschatka, and the North Pacific Ocean is sepa- 

 rately specified. 



There is another map of 1818, a map of Asia by Arrowsmith of the 

 same year, and Behring Sea is not named, though a considerable part 

 of the western side of it is included. The difference with the same 

 geographer is that one is a map of Asia, and the other a hydrograph- 

 ical map, or the countries round the north pole. 



