46 COUNTER-CASE OF GREAT BRITAIN. 



Article IV defines the boiiudaiy between the narrow 

 8trij) of coast already referred to as allotted to Eussia and 

 the British possessions. The strip is described as — 



la lisiere de c6te mentionn^e ci-dessus comme devaut appartenir a la 

 Russie. 



Articles V and VI both distinguished between ''cote" 

 and ''lisiere." 



MR. BLAINE AGREES WITH MR. CANNING THAT ARTICLE 

 VII OF BRITISH TREATY IS " PRACTICALLY A REPETI- 

 TION " OF ARTICLE IV OF AMERICAN TREATY. 



British Casp, Article VII closely corresponds with Article IV of the 

 ^vpemiix^ vol. flpg^ Treaty, being, as Mr. Blaine says (here agreeing with 

 sVatPs No.*^2Mr. Canning), "practically a repetition" of it. According 

 (1890), "p. 504. ^Q Contention (4.), the right given by both Articles to fre- 

 quent harbours refers, not to the whole coast nieu- 

 51 tioned in xVrticle III, but to the ''lisiere." But tbe 

 word used in Article VII is "cote," not "lisiere"; 

 and the effect of Contention (4.) is to destroy the recii^rocal 

 character of that Article. 



MEANING OF "NORTH-WEST COAST." 



GREENHOW'S DEFINITION AGREES WITH BRITISH CON- 

 STRUCTION. 



Eecurring to the expression "north-west coast" or 

 "north-west coast of America," it is rarely that the expres- 

 sion in either form is found as a geographical term, or that 

 British Ca8e,p. its precisc signification is specially defined in words. One 



metseq. instance is the definition given by Greenhow, and quoted 



at ]). 00 of the British Case, which corresponds precisely 

 with the position maintained by Great Britain. The term 

 is not often found on Maps, but a somewhat extended exami- 

 nation of these has lesulted in the discovery of a few 

 instances of its use, at dates both before and after that of 

 the Treaty of 1825. From an inspection of these Maps, it 

 Appendix, vol. is quite apparent that the expression was employed in a 



i, pp. 105-109. very lax and general sense, and without precision of mean- 

 ing in respect to lines of latitude and longitude. 



Moreover, the words " IS'orth-west coast of America" will 

 be found in the following instances to have been used by 

 Russia and the United States for the purpose of defining 

 international relations under circumstances which make it 

 evident that they Avere understood by the Contracting 

 Parties as including the eastern coasts of Behring Sea. 



SLAVE TRADE TREATY OF 1841. 



mSlTreS?^ ^^^ instance, by Treaty of the I'Oth December, 1841, 

 voi.vi, p. 5^ ' between Great Britain, Austria, France, Prussia, and Rus- 

 sia, for the sui)pressioii of the Slave Trade, it is provided 

 (Article IV) that— 



Ibid., p. 19. in no case shall tlie mutual right of search be exercised upon the ships 

 of war of the-High Coutractiug Parties. 



