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recognized and conceded by Great Britain, in the sense that that 

 country never, in auy form, disputed such right, although neither Great 

 Britain nor the United States ever recognized or conceded even the 

 quah tied jurisdiction asserted by Russia, in the Uliase of 1821, to for- 

 bid foreign vessels from approaching nearer tlian 100 Italian miles from 

 her coasts or islands. In respect to seal fisheries, if any, conducted in 

 the oi)en waters of Bering Sea outside of territorial waters, Kussia 

 neither held nor exclusively exercised any right not possessed, in such 

 open waters, by all other nations. 



In respect to the fourth point of Article VI, it was not disputed in 

 argument (as of course it could not be) that whatever rights — that 

 is, wliatev^er legal rights — Russia had, as to jurisdiction and as to 



sian America comprises the wliole of the continent of northwest America west of 

 longitude 144*^ west and a strip on the coast extending south to latitude 55° 

 north, bounded on the east by British America, south and west by the Pacific 

 Ocean, and north by the Arctic Ocean," etc. 



Cyclopedia of Gco(]rapluj, hy Knight, 1856: "Behring's Strait, which connects 

 the Pacific with the Arctic Ocean, is formed by the approach of the continents 

 of America and Asia." 



McCuUoclCs Geographical Dictionary, hy Martin, 1866: "Pacific Ocean: Its ex- 

 treme southern limit is the Antarctic Circle, from which it stretches northward 

 through 132^ of latitude to Behring Strait, which separates it from the Arctic 

 Ocean." 



BlacMe's Imperial Gazeteer, London, 1874, Vol. 2, p. 558 : "In the north the 

 Pacific gradually contracts in width; the continents of America and Asia 

 stretching out and approximating, so as to leave the comparatively narrow 

 channel of Behring's Strait as the only communication between the Pacific 

 and the Arctic Oceans." 



American Cyclopedia, New York, 1875, Vol. 1, p. 480: ''Behring Sea. That part 

 of the Pacific Ocean which lies immediately south of Behring Strait." 



Encyclopedia Britannica, Edinburgh. Ninth Ed., 1875-1800, Vol. 18, p. 115: 

 "The Pacific Ocean is bounded on the north by Behring's Strait and the coasts of 

 Russia and Alaska. * * * It extends through 132-^ of latitude; in other 

 words, it measures 9,000 miles from north to south. From east to west its 

 breadth varies from about 40 miles at Behring's Strait," etc. In the English 

 edition it is stated in a footnote that the Pacific Ocean was formerly called the 

 South Sea. 



Worcester's Dictionary of the English Language, Philadelphia, 1887: "Behring 

 Sea: A part of the Pacific Ocean north of the Aleutian Islands." 



Chambers's Cyclopaedia, 1888: "Behring Strait connects the Pacific Ocean witJi 

 the Arctic Ocean. Behring Sea: A part of the Pacific Ocean commonly known 

 aa the Sea of Kamchatka." 



