PART FIRST. 



RELATING TO HISTORICAL AND JURIS- 

 DICTIONAL QUESTIONS. 



GEOGRAPHICAL SKETCH OF BERING SEA. 



Berina: Sea is the body of water lying' between location, bonnd- 



^ •/ J r> aries aud (hiueu- 



tlie Arctic Ocean and tlie Nortli Pacific Ocean. '^'^"^' 

 It is connected with the former by Bering Strait, 

 and with the latter chiefly by the opening which 

 is found between the westernmost of the Aleutian 

 Islands and the peninsula of Kamciiatka. It is 

 sometimes referred to and treated as a great land- 

 locked sea.^ 



Generally speaking, it may be regarded as 

 a triangle, Avitli the vertex in Bering Strait 

 and bounded on the east by the mainland of 

 Alaska, on the north and west by Siberia and 

 the peninsula of Kamchatka, while its southerly 

 boundary is formed by the peninsula of Alaska 

 and the line of the Aleutian Islands extended to 

 Kamchatka. 



It has an area of about 873,128 square miles.^ 



1 Fiudlay's Nortli Pacific Directory, 2d ed., London, 1870, p. 517- 



2 Unless otherwise stated, all measurements ai'e given in Eng- 

 lish statute miles, of which there are 69 J to a degree. 11 



