COUNTER-CASE OF GREAT BRITAIN. 39 



MR. BLAINE'S LIST OF MAPS VERY INCOMPLETE. 



A criticism of this list of Maps will be found in the Appen- i, pp!86°/«^'gr'' * 

 dix to this Coimter-Case. It is surticient here to point out 

 that the list is very incomplete, and that a great many 

 Maps which shonld nndoubtedly have come to the notice 

 of the compiler are omitted therefrom, as in some cases 

 bnt a single Map is qnoted from an Atlas containing other 

 Maps so marked as to tell against the contention which it 

 is endeavoured to maintain. 



SIZE AND POSITION OF NAMES ON MAPS TO BE 



CONSIDERED, 



Neither has any attention been paid l)y the comjiiler of 

 the list to the relative sizes of the characters in which the 

 names quoted by him appear on the Maps cited, nor to the 

 positions which these names occupy, xVn examination of 

 these points, on such of the Maps included in the list as 

 have been obtain.ed in identical editions, show, in fact, 

 that in a large i3roportion of instances the names Sea of 

 Kamtchatka, &c., mentioned in quoted Contentions, are 

 so placed as to refer merely to limited portions of the body 

 of water now known as Behring Sea. 



MANY AUTHENTIC MAPS GIVE BEHRING SEA NO DIS- 

 TINCTIVE NAME. 



A list of Maps contained in the Appendix to this g^^'^"^- ■^<>i- i' p- 

 Counter-Case, in tlte compilation of which no special selec- 

 tion has been made other than that relating to their date 

 of i)nblication, appears in fact to show that, in more than 

 half of the authentic Maps relating to the ])eriod in ques- 

 tion, Behring Sea appeared without any distinctive name. 



Though described by Mr. Blaine as showing ''the opin- 

 ion of a large part of the civilized world" during the 

 ninety years prior to 1825, it is therefore submitted that 

 this description is inaccurate. 



It is in the Case of the United States further affirmed ^,^Y^»ted jta^es 

 that the term "North-eastern Sea," or "P^astern Ocean," ■^^^'^'^^- ' 



is an alternative name for the body of water now 

 44 generally known as Behring Sea. It is necessary 

 on the part of the United States to assume this 

 position, because of the mention made of the "North- 

 eastern Ocean" and "North-eastern Sea" in the first and 

 third Charters of the Russian-American Company, in which 

 these terms are employed in defining the field of the oi)era- 

 tions of that Company; and the use of the terms men- 

 tioned in these Charters is referred to in the Case of the 

 United States as supi)orting its contention. But on turn- 

 ing to the correct translation of the Charter of 1790, it will ^'^*^' p- "• 

 be found that the Company is — 



to enjoy the profits of all industries and establishments now existing 

 on the north-eastern coast*' of America, from the aforesaid 55"-^ to 

 B<"hrino' Strait, and beyond that strait, as well as on the Aleutian and 

 Kurile Inlands, and the other islands sitnattd in tlie North- Eastern Uccan. 



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