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



Mr. Justice Harlan. — It was named the Sea of Kamchatka in 1817. 



Sir Richard Webster. — No, Sir; not in number 17. 



Mr. Justice Harlan. — On page 99. I thought you meant the year 

 1817. 



Sir EiCHARD Webster. — No ; I was giving the number of the map. 

 No. 17 on page 95, in the j^ear 1798. They are numbered consecutively; 

 and number 18 is in the same year. Then I should call attention to l!4, 

 1>5, 2G, and 32. 



Mr. Juvstice Harlan. — I see that in number 24 Behring Sea is known 

 as Beaver Sea and the North Pacific is named Southern Ocean or Still 

 Sea. 



Sir Richard Webster. — I do not know whether you have noticed 

 it; but Beaver Sea which is written across in some maps is in the more 

 correct maps written as a small local name close to the coast of Kam- 

 chatka. It is mentioned in more than one place in these maps, and 

 written in smaller characters along the Kamchatkan Coast to the north 

 of Petropaulovski. 



Then there is number 40, which is an important map, on page 96 : 



Arrowsmi til's Chart of the Pacific Ocean. This is a large and important Map in 

 nine sheets, specially devoted to the Pacific Ocean. Originally published in 1798. 

 This edition with corrections to 1810. The northern edge of the Map runs about 

 latitude 62 degrees north, and it includes the greater part of Behring Sea but shows 

 it as a large blank unnamed space. Bristol Bay alone is rather prominently named. 

 By contrast, the -Sea of Okhotsk: Sea of Japan, and other enclosed seas are named. 



If you will kindly look, Mr. President, at the map of the Pacific, it 

 takes you up to 62 degrees. It would be a little south of the Yukon 

 River, and therefore includes a great deal more than nine-tenths of 

 Behring Sea as now understood. That is to say, it is some 500 miles 

 north of the Pribilofs, and would practically be, for all substantial pur- 

 poses, the whole of Behring Sea, except the part immediately running 

 into the neck of Behring Straits; and that was a chart of the Pacific 

 Ocean as early as the year 1810. 



Mr. Justice Harlan. — The map published by that same man accord- 

 ing to Mr. Blaine's list, in 1811, in Loudon, gives the Sea of Kamchatka. 



Sir Richard Webster. — I think, Sir, that is number 46 in our list. 



Mr. Justice Harlan. — Yes; that is the same one. 



Sir Richard Webster. — (Quoting) : 



Hydrographical Chart of the world. A. Arrowsmith, 1811. 

 Behring Sea named Sea of Kamchatka. 

 Behring's Straits. North Pacific Ocean. 



We would have to look at that map to see how the words " Sea of 

 Kamchatka" were used; but I do not think it in any way strengthens 

 the contention of my learned friends to suggest that what I may call 

 varying names are sufficient to differentiate this from a part of the 

 Pacific Ocean. 



Lord Hannen. — What is that intended to indicate. Sir Richard, 

 ^''Bering's Strait, North Pacific Ocean''"'? Thf^y are written in italics. 

 Does it merely mean that Behring Strait is put in, or does it indicate 

 at all how far out the North Pacific Ocean extends? 



Sir Richard Webster. — I do not think it indicates anything more 

 than that Behring Strait is put in. The names that appear are Sea of 

 Kamchatka and Behring Strait. 



Mr. Justice Harlan. — It does not show their relation to each other. 

 Right along in those years the Sea of Kamchatka seemed to be all one 

 name with Behring Sea. 



