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happy people. The paper closed with a l)rief account of Quichua 

 literature, a couple of short fragmentary specimens of which were 

 translated, an analysis of the most important Quichia drama " Ollau- 

 tay," and a translation of its most interesting scenes being promised 

 on some future occasion. 



T. B. Browning, M.A., read a paper on "The Alaskan 

 Boundary." 



He entei-ed into the history of the dispute between the United 

 States and Great Britain, and described the position which Russia 

 occupied in the question. He said there was no mention of dominion 

 over sea in the treaty. The rights conceded were expressed to be 

 over the firm land and islands adjoining. Authorities were cited to 

 show that it was the custom of nations when seas were conveyed or 

 presumed to be conveyed to specify them in the grant, and therefore 

 the seizure of a British vessel for trespassing on the waters off Alaska 

 could scarcely be defended. Under the convention of 1825 Britain 

 had rights in the North Pacific of commerce, of navigation, o'f fishing, 

 which both in the Atlantic and Pacific includes seal hunting, of 

 landing on unoccupied coasts — a fifth right respects refuge in stress 

 of weather. The Pacific Ocean was then to Britain not a mare 

 clausum, but a mare liberum. The paper also contained a descrip- 

 tion of the eastern limit of the territory, and showed the difl&culties 

 of accurately defining it. 



THIRTEENTH MEETING. 



Thirteenth Meeting, I2th February, 1887, the President in 

 the Chair. 



Exchanges since last meeting, 25. 



The Council announced the election of the following as 

 Associates : — Frank Douglas, A. H. Gregg, George W. King 



Dr. Scadding read a paper entitled " Canada in Sculpture,'' 

 and exhibited a photograph of a marble statue of George II. 

 in the Senate house of the University of Cambridge in Eng- 

 land, which represents the King as a Roman general or 

 imperator, crowned with laurel, and encircHng with his right 



