656 



THE SOVEREIGNTY OF THE SEA 



shows how complicated the three - mile limit is among the 

 islands. 



The views of Russia with respect to the limits of territorial 

 waters, as expressed during the negotiations with Great Britain 

 in the earlier part of last century, have been referred to (p. 581), 

 and it appears from the Russian Code of Prize Law, 1869 

 (Art. 21), that the jurisdictional waters, the extent of which 



Fig. 22. The White Sea, shnving the line between Cape Kanin and Cape Sviatoi. 



had been fixed in her treaties at the end of the eighteenth 

 century at the range of guns, are limited to three miles (about 

 5647 metres) from the shore. The same distance was assigned 

 for customs purposes: and as no general boundary has been 

 prescribed for the exclusive right of fishing, it may be pre- 

 sumed that that right is restricted to the same space. 1 It 



1 Sixth Supplement to Section 44 of Customs Orders, vol. vi., 1886 ; Ordinance of 

 Home Department for the Regulation of the Fishery Supervision on the Murman 

 Coast, 4th May 1887. See footnote, p. 657. 



