42 COUNTER-CASE OF GREAT BRITAIN. 



ibici.,]> 11. Respecting' the connection of Behring Sea with the main 



bod 3^ of the Paciflsi Ocean, it is further stated in the sketch, 

 with reference to the Aleutian Islands, that — 



the straits or })asses separating the islands are of various widths, 

 tliose in the easterly half being generally narrow and but few of them 

 available for navigation. The most imijorfcaut are Uniniak Pass, 11 

 miles wide, and Amukta or ''.Seventy-two" Pass, 42 miles wide. 



This, again, is misleading. 



The largest of the Aleutian Islands are near the coast of 

 America. In proceeding westwards they become smaller, 

 and the openings between them wider, until they end at 

 Attn Island, GOO miles from the extremity of the Peninsula 

 of Kamtchatka, and 370 miles from the nearest part of that 

 land. In the Fox Islands, forming the eastern group 

 47 of the Aleutians, there are only a few straits, the 

 most important being the Uuimak, 11 miles wide; 

 but Akntan and Unalga Passes are also navigable. 



The following is a list of the openings into Behring Sea: 



Geographical 

 miles. 



T'niniak Pass 18^- 



Akntan Pass 2^ 



Un alga Pass li 



Umnak Pass 3 



Adugakh Island (western of Fox Islands) to Kaganiil Island. .. 18 



Ka,j,amil Island to Chuivinadak Island (2 openings) 4 



Cliuginadak Island to Yunaska Island 15 



Ynnaska Island to Anuikhta Island (2 openings) 11 



Amukhta Pass 35 



•> Signam Pass 12| 



Amlia Island to Atka Island If 



Atka Island to lanaga Island (9 openings) 22 



lanaga Island to Illakh Island 14|- 



Illakh Island to Ugidakb Island 9 



Amatignak Island to Amchitka Island , 50 



Amchitka Island to Kyska Island (3 openings) 23i 



Kyska Island to Bonldir Island 64 



Bouldir Island to Semitchi Islands 52 



Seinitchi Islands to Attn Island 15 



Attn Island to Copper Island 190 



Copper Island to Behring Island 26 



Behring Island to Kamtchatka 95 



Total 684 



OF 1,060 MILES BETWEEN AVESTERN END OF FOX ISLANDS 

 AND COAST OF ASIA 068 ARE SEA. 



It is thus seen that, on the southerly limit of Behring 

 Sea, iroin the western end of the Fox Islands to the coast 

 of Asia, a distance of some 1,060 geographical miles, there 

 are about GOO miles of sea, being nearly two-thirds of the 

 entire distance. 



EXAMINATION OF TREATIES OF 1824 AND 1825. 



Having shown in the last Chapter that the whole sea 

 area comprised in the L'kase of ism was, from first to last, 

 without exception of Behring Sea, the subject of the nego- 

 tiations resulting in the Treaties of 1824 and 1825; and 

 having now shown that, by the usage of geographers, the 

 term "Pacific Ocean" includes Behring Sea, it is of impor- 

 tance to examine the Treaties themselves. 



