TO THE UNITED HTATES. 71 



between the Ruhsimh jukI iIk; liritiHli poHsessions ^ BoTinriari«H of 



i territory ctdfcd. 



In Xortli Arneric.M, us t.li.'it line was cstn,b- 

 lislied by tlie Ijritish-JtUHsiaTi treaty of 1820.^ 

 On tlie west the liiK; of dfanarcation is stated as 

 follows: "The western limit, within which the 

 territories and dominion conveyed are con- 

 tained, passes throTig'h a point in Jjehrin^s 

 Strfiits on thf; parallel of sixty-five degrees 

 thirty rniniites north latitude, at its intersec- 

 fu)]i by the meridian which jjasses midway 

 fjetween the island of Krusenstem, or I^^na- 

 look, and the ishmfj (A' Uatmanoff or Noonar- 

 book, and proceeds due north, wit]ir)iit liniit;i,- 

 tion, into the same Frozen Ocean. Tlie same 

 western h'mit, beginning at the same initial point, 

 proceeds thence in a course nearly southwest, 

 through ]3ehrin':5-''* Straits and iiehrinii^s 8ea, so 

 as to pass midway between the northwest point 

 of the Island of 8t. Lawrence and the southeast 

 point of Cape Choukotski, to the meridian of one 

 hundred and seventy-two west longitude; thence, 

 from the intersection of that meridian, in a south- 

 westerly direction, so as to pass midway between 

 the island of Attu and the Copper Island of the 

 Komandoi'ski couplet or group in the North 

 Pacific Ocean, to the meridian of one hinidred 

 and ninety-three degrees west longitude, so as to 



I'VoTl, p 39. 



