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the intervenliis: sea has long- since been acknowl- .i^eciarationmade 



~ ~ immediately be- 



edged by all powers, these coasts, islands, ^.ndjj^^^^^^^jjjj.^^^^^*^^^ 

 seas just named could not have been referred to 

 in the articles of the above-mentioned convention, 

 which latter concerns only the disputed territory 

 on the Northwest Coast of America and the 

 adjoining islands, and that in the full assurance 

 of such undisputed right Russia has long ^nce 

 established permanent settlements on the coast 

 of Siberia as well as on the chain of the Aleutian 

 Islands; consequently American subjects could 

 not, on the strength of article II of the conven- 

 tion of April 5-17, have made landings on the 

 coast, or carried on hunting and fishing without 

 the permission of our commanders and governors. 

 These coasts of Siberia and of the Aleutian 

 Islands are not washed by the Southern or Paci- 

 fic Ocean, of which mention is made in article I 

 of the convention, but by the Arctic Ocean and 

 the Seas of Kamchatka and Okhotsk, which, on 

 all authentic charts and in all geographies, form 

 no part of the Southern or Pacific Ocean."' 



To fully appreciate the significance of the 

 foregoing declaration, it must be remembered 



1 The explanatory note presented Dec. 6, 1824, by Baron de 

 Tuyll to Mr. Adams, reference to wliicli is made in Mr. Blaine's 

 note to Lord Salisbury of Dec. 17, 1890 (Vol. I, pp. 263, 276), was 

 a result of the report from which the foregoing paragraph is 

 quoted; and this very paragra]3h was clearly used as the basis for 

 the explanatory note. 



