ORAL ARGUMENT OF SIR RICHARD WEBSTER, Q. C. M. P. 455 



Bearer Sra close in to shore of Kamchatka. 



Sea of Okoisk, equivalent in rank to iSea of Kamchatka. 



Gulf of Anadyr, Bristol Bay. 



Northern Part of Pacific or Great South Sea. 



The Aleutian Islands are very imperfectly shown. 



It is most important, when you refer to those maps, to see whether 

 they wrote the names large or small, in order to see the importance they 

 attach to them. 



Then you will find page 94, 1794, No. 15, an important map 



Prepared by Lieut. Henry Roberts under the immediate inspection of Captain 

 Cook, London. Published by William Fadden, Geographer to the King. 



Mr. Justice Harlan.— Before you get to that, there is a similar ref- 

 erence, on page 93. 



Sir Richard Webster. — Will you kindly give me the date? 



Mr. Justice Harlan. — It is number 4, on page 93 the year being 1784. 

 There Behring Sea is named Sea of Kamchatka, and then there are other 

 seas there. Then there is the Northern part of the Pacific or Great 

 South Sea. Have you got that chart itself, so we can see how they are 

 divided ? 



Sir Richard Webster. — I do not know whether we have but I may 

 be able to obtain it for you. 



Mr. Justice Harlan. — I desired to ask in that connection how many 

 more of those maps, by name and in words, speak of the Pacific as the 

 South Sea. or Great South Sea. 



Sir Richard Webster. — I have not worked it out. I know the 

 name Great South Sea disappeared very soon ; but about what date I 

 could not tell you. I will try and have it worked out, Judge, if I can. 



Mr. Justice Harlan. — I do not know that it is important. We can 

 do that. 



Sir Richard Webster.— Tes. If you will look at 1794, which is a 

 very important map, you will see that it is one which undoubtedly made 

 what I may call a record at the time. It is number 15. The advertise 

 ment was: 



The interesting discoveries made by British and American ships since the first pub- 

 lication of the Chart in 1784, together with the hydrographical materials lately pro- 

 cured from St. Petersburgh and other places, have enabled Mr. de Ja Rochette to lay 

 down the numerous improvements which appear in the i)re8ent edition. 



Mr. Justice Harlan. — That is the second edition of the map to 

 which I have just called attention. 

 Sir Richard W^ebster. — You are quite right: 



The main body of Behring Sea, which in the first edition was styled Sea of Kam- 

 chatka, here appears without any distinctive name. 



Sea of Kamchatka is written on the waters immediately adjacent to the peninsula. 



Sea of Anadyr replaces the Gulf of Anadyr of the Ist edition. 



Sea of Okotsk appears as a name of equal right with Sea of Kamchatka and Sea of 

 Anadyr. 



Beave)' Sea is written in smaller characters along the Kamchatkan coast to the 

 north of Petropaulovski. 



Behring Strait, Bristol Bay. 



North Part of the Pacific Ocean or Great South Sea. 



At that time it appears that the name Great South Sea still con- 

 tinued to be used. 



Then I have marked a good many; but I think I might perhaps indi- 

 cate the numbers without reading them, of those that are clearly impor- 

 tant. There are numbers 17 and 18, two of the French maps in which 

 Behring Sea is not named, but the whole of the North Pacific is called 

 Grand Ocean Septentrional, and Grand Ocean. Then there are 24 and 25. 



