5Z THE TREATIES OF 1824 AND 1825. 



Settled two-fold and one between Great Britain and Russia in 



dispute. 



1825.^ These two treaties settled tiie twofold 

 dispute which had been raised by the ukase, 

 namely, first, the maritime dispute; second, tlie 

 territorial dispute relating to the Northwest Coast. 

 Beriiif? Sea not The maiitime dispute w^as settled by the first 



included in terms . - n i -rt • • ^ ^ 



used to denote Pa- articles. 1 liat 01 the JDi'itisli treaty was, at tlie 



cilic Oceau. f. i t-» • • i • 9 • i i 



request oi the liritish negotiators, copied almost 

 verbatim from the corresponding article of the 

 American treaty, and the latter was based upon 

 the third article of the convention of 1790 

 between Great Britain and Spain.^ 



That the term "Great Ocean, commonly called 

 the Pacific Ocean or South Sea," used in article 

 I of the treaty of 1824 with the United States, 

 and the term "The Ocean, commonly called the 

 Pacific Ocean," used in article I of the treaty of 

 1825 with Great Britain, did not apply to and 

 include Bering Sea, is shown by a study of the 

 maps, charts, and writings of navigators* at the 

 time of and prior to the negotiation and celebra- 



1 Vol. I, p. 39. 



'Letter G. Canniug to S. Canning, Dec. S, 1824, Vol. I, p. 260. 



3 Vol. I, p. 32. 



••Buruey, speaking of the ''line of boundary -which seems de- 

 signed by nature for this great sea," says: "The northern limits 

 are marked by the continuation of the American Coast from Mount 

 St. Elias towards the west with the chain of islands called the 

 Fox and the Aleutian Islands." Burney's Chronological History 

 of the Discoveries in the South Sea or Pacilic Ocean, London, 1803, 

 vol. I, p. 2. 



