THE TREATIES OF 1824 AND 1825. 53 



tlon of these treaties. A list of these maps and 

 charts is appended hereto/ and a careful exami- 

 nation of the same is invited. It will be seen from 

 them that the best geographers have at all times 

 distinguished this body of water from the ocean 

 l^nng south of it by conferring upon it some 

 separate name, in most cases either that of Sea 

 of Kamchatka, Bering Sea, Northeastern Sea, or 

 Eastern Ocean." 



But in addition to the correspondence attend- Express deciaivi- 



tions of Ivussiiin 



ino' the negotiations, the text of the treaties f^»verumo,ut cu 



^^ ^ ' ^ ^ this subject. 



themselves, and the authority of navigators, 

 attention is invited to the express declarations of 

 the Russian Government on the subject during 

 the negotiations and after the treaties had been 

 celebrated. 



On July 18, 1822, the Imperial Minister of 

 Finance addressed to the board of administra- 

 tion of the Russian American Company a com- 

 munication in which, referring to the protests 

 which had been made against the ukase of 1821 

 and to the negotiations on the subject with the 

 United States having in view some modification 

 of tlie ukase, he says : " The rules to be pro- 



' Vol. I, p. 287. ' 



2 As to "Sea of Kaiucliatka" and "Bering Sea," sec qnotatiou 

 ivfra from tLe letter dated July 18, 1822, from tlie Minister of 

 Finance to the board of administration. As to "Northeastern 

 Sea," see first and third charters of the Company, Vol. I, pp. 14, 28. 

 As to "Eastern Ocean," see Coxe, map (frontispiece). 



