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the ocean get local names; but for tliis jnirpose we have got to consider 

 what the parties meant when they wrote it in that treaty. I trust I 

 have not failed in bringing to the mind of the court tlie demonstration 

 that they did mean tiie part of tlie Ocean right up to Behiing Straits. 



Lord Hannen. — To what extent do you say this list is exhaustive? 



Sir EiCHARD Webster. — As far as the maps are concerned, my Lord, 

 I believe it contains every known map that could be found. 



Mr. Justice Harlan. — Oh, no; there are a great many of the maps 

 not given. Mr. Blaine, in his correspondence with Lord Salisbury, 

 gives 105 maps. 



Sir Richard Webster. — There are 136 in this list, Sir; but not all 

 of Mr. Blaine's are included because later Editions were inserted. 



Mr. Justice Harlan. — More than half of Mr. Blaine's I think, are 

 not mentioned in your list. 



Sir Richard Webster. — I do not think that is correct, Judge. 



Mr. Justice Harlan. — I may be wrong. 



Sir Richard Webster. — I do not think that is correct; but I really 

 have not examined it personally. 



Lord Hannen. — I wanted to know because I find — if you are right, 

 you know — that down to the year 1825, according- to your statement, 

 the Behring Sea is never mentioned. You stated that this is exhaus- 

 tive. Behring Sea is not mentioned in any of these geographies. 



Sir Richard Webster. — It would perhaps be convenient to say a 

 word or two about the maps themselves. 



Lord Hannen. — These are all the geographies? 



Sir Richard Webster. — I believe, my Lord, that the list of geog- 

 raphies has been made as chronologically accurate as it could be. I do 

 not pretend to say we found every book that exists, because it is not 

 possible; but at any rate it was endeavored to be done impartially; and 

 so far as we could, they were taken from the books which could be 

 found. 



Lord Hannen. — Take the third: "Behring Island, an island in the 

 Pacific Ocean". Then there is added "Behring Island in the Behring 

 Sea". 



Sir Richard Webster. — That is the first name given to it. 



Lord Hannen. — That is added? 



Sir Richard Webster. — That is our commentary, put in brackets. 

 It is the first time Behring Island was mentioned, and we desired to 

 show where it was. 



Mr. Justice Harlan. — Behring Island is to the left of the Copper 

 Island. 



Sir Richard Webster. — Mr. President, I had not intended to trouble 

 you with the maps; but I should like to pick out a few as I pass, in 

 order to shew yon the importance of them. Of course in these early 

 days people naturally borrowed from one another. There was not so 

 much known about the maps, and you would not expect it. If you will 

 kindly look, Sir, at the earliest on page 92. 



A general chart, exhibiting the discoveries made hy Captain James Cook, etc. 

 This is the original of the chart in the 8™ edition. Behring Sea appears without 

 names, though Olutarskoi sea, Beaver Sea, Gulf of Anidir, Shoal Water, Bristol Bay, 

 appear as local names of equal rank. The three first close in to the Asiatic coast. 



Behring Strait, North Pacitic Ocean. 



Then at number 4. 



Chart of the N. W. Coast of America and the N. E. Coast of Asia. Explored in 

 the years 1778 and 1779. Prepared by Lieut. Roberts under the immediate inspec- 

 tion of Captain Cook. Published by W. Faden, Charing Cross, July 24, 1784. 



Behring Sea named Sea of Kamchatka. 



