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DIPLOMATIC CORRESPONDENCE. 



List of early maps, wUh (lcsi(inatioii of waters now Icnown as Behring Sen, etc. — Continued, 



Description of map. 



Desij^nation of waters now 

 known as Behring Sea. 



"Where published. 



Date. 



Allgemeine Weltkarte, with voyage of 



Kruseiistein. 

 Grand Atlas Universal, edited by Chez 



Desray ; Mappemoude, by Goiijon, 



geogi'uplier. 

 Atlas tli^'inrntiiire, by Lapie et. Poirson. . . , 

 Amerique Septentriouale et Meridionale; 



Lajiie. 



Map in Thompson's atlas 



rieldinir Lucas's atlas 



Ktiiliard and von nailer's German atlas.. 



ilap ill (iirriK 111 lull's atlas 



Jolin riiikcrtoii's iiioilcru atlas 



Map en;;raved by Kirk wood & Son 



Chart of the Russian and English discov- 

 eries in the North Pacific Ocean, by 



Capt. James Burner, F. K. S. 

 Carte Gen^^rale de l^Amerique; De La- 



marche. 

 Carte dAni6rique Sept'le et M6rid'le; 



Hennon. 

 Chart of Alaska, by J. K. Eyries and 



Malte-Brun. 

 Chart of the Arctic Ocean and North 



America, by Lapie. 



Caite G6ncr.ale dii Globe ; Brud 



Mnppeiiioudo Tardien 



Atlas of La Vogne; M. Carey 



Atlas Universal of A. H. Brue 



Maiiiiinioiidc; Herrison 



Map to illustrate the voyage of Kotzebue. 



Eiulding Lucas's Atlas , 



Do 



Am6rif|ue Septertrionale; Lapie 



Atlas Classicjue et Uuiverscl, by M. Lapie. 



Anthony Finley's Atlas 



Atlas of Buchon ; cartes des Possessions 

 Russes. 



Map in Bntler's Atlas 



Atlas Historico de Le Sago 



Sea of Kamtschatka 

 Bassin du Nord 



Loudon . 

 Paris . . . 



Bassin du Noi'd on de Bering 

 Merdo Bering ou Bassin du 

 Nord . 



Sea of Kamtschatka 



do 



Sea of Kanischatka 



Sea of Kamtchatka 



do 



Sea of Kamtschatka 



Sea of Kanischatka 



.do 

 .do 



Edinburgh — 



Baltivnore 



Weimar 



Ediiibiiruh.. . 

 Phihidclpliia. 

 Edinburgh. .. 

 Loudon . .' 



Mer de Bering ou Bassin du Paris 



Nord. 

 Bassin du Nord do 



Behriug Sea , 

 do 



Mer de Bchring 



Mer de Bchring 



Sea of Kaiiitcliatka 



Mer de Bfriiig , 



Mer de Bclii lug 



Sea of Kanitstliatka 



do 



do 



Mer de Behring 



Mer de Bchring on Bassin 

 du Nord. 



Sea of Kamtschatka 



Bassin du Nord 



Sea of Kanischatka 

 Mer de Bering , 



.do 



Weimar 



Paris 



...do 



Philadel))liia. 



Paris 



...do 



St. Petersbuij 

 Philadelphia. 

 Baltimore . . . 



Paris 



...do 



Philadelphia. 

 Paris 



London . 

 Paris . . . 



1815 

 1816 



1816 

 1817 



1817 

 1817 

 1818 

 1818 

 1818 

 1819 

 1819 



1819 



1820 



1821 



1821 



1821 

 1821 

 1821 

 1822 

 1823 

 1823 

 1823 

 1823 

 1824 

 1824 



1824 

 1825 



1825 

 '1829 



Lord Salishury to Sir Julian Pauncefote. 



Kg. 34.] Foreign Oefioe, Fehruary 21, 1801. 



Sir : The di.spatch of Mr. Blaine, under date of tlie 17th December, 

 has been carefully considered by Pier Majesty's Government. The 

 effect of the discu.ssion which has been carried on between the two 

 Governments has been materially to narrow the area of controversy. 

 It is now quite clear that the advisers of the President do not claim 

 Behring's Sea as -a mare clausum^ and indeed that they repudiate that 

 contention in express terms. Nor do they rely, as a justification for 

 the seizure of British ships in the oi)en sea, upon the contention that 

 the interests of the seal fisheries give to the United States Government 

 any right for that purpose which, according to international law, it 

 would not otlierwise possess. Whatever importance they attach to the 

 preservation of the fur-seal species — and they justly look on it as an 

 object deserving the most serious solicitude — they do not conceive that 

 it confers upon any maritime power rights over the open ocean which 

 that power could not assert on other grounds. 



The claim of the llnited States to prevent the e.xercise of the seal 

 fishery by other nations in Behring Sea rests now exclusively upon the 

 interest which by ])urchase they iiossess in a ukase issued by the Etn- 

 ])eror Alexander I, in the year ISlil, which ])rohibits foreign vessels 

 from ai^proaching within llO Italian miles of the coasts and islands 



' See also j^lobo, Ijondoii, 1797, by D. Adams, globe maker to the King, ou which 

 Bcrhig Sea is desiiinated as Easteru Ocean. 



