86 GEOGRAPHICAL NOTES RELATING TO THE 

 NAMES " PACIFIC OCEAN," " BEHRING SEA," 

 "NORTH-EASTERN OCEAN," "EASTERN OCEAN," 

 TO THE MEANING OF THE EXPRESSION "NORTH- 

 WEST COAST," AND TO THE DEPTH OF BEHRING 

 SEA AND ITS CONNECTION WITH THE BASIN OF 

 THE PACIFIC. 



1. — On the Use of the Names "Pacific Ocean" 

 AND "Beheing- Sea." 



In support of the sxiecial assertion tliat the Pacific Ocean united states 

 did not include Beliringj Sea as shown by " a study of the case, pp. 52, 53. 

 jVTnps, Charts, and writings of navigators at the time of 

 and prior to the celebration of these Treaties," it is stated 

 in the United States Case that " a list of these Maps and 

 Charts is appended," from which it will be seen that geog'- 

 raphers conferred npon Behring Sea " some separate 

 name in most eases, either that of Sea of Kamtchatka, 

 Behring Sea, North-Eastern Sea, or Eastern Ocean." 



It is submitted, however, that the list cannot proi)erly iwd., ^Appen- 

 be regarded as representing- the usage of geographers, '^^^ ^' ^' ^^'^' 

 even on the narrow ground of the nomenclature of oceans, 

 seas, &c., as printed on the Maps in question; for this list 

 is, in reality, merely a selected series of such Maps as in 

 respect to their marking correspond, in a negative sense 

 (or in other words do not disagree), with the contention 

 which it is wished by the United States to uphold. 



Without entering into any great detail respecting' the Note on the 

 numerous voyages of discovery in this region, which, in "J^^^"™.^*^|J['p]^ 

 the first instance, were principally due to liussian eflbrts Behring Sca has 

 from the Asiatic coast, it is comj)aratively easy to place on named." 

 record the salient features of this branch of the subject; 

 mid to trace its progress, more particularly by means of 

 the Maps published from time to time in illustration of the 

 results of the various explorers. 



The first published Map in which that part of the Asiatic 

 coast, including Kamtchatka, aiul extending to and beyond 

 Behring" Straits, was represented, was that in illustration 

 of Behring's first voyage, in 1737, in D'Anville's "Atlas." 

 It is reproduced by Mr. W. H. Dall, in the "National Geo- 

 graphical Magazine," Washington, 1890. At this time 

 neither the Commander Islands nor the Aleutian Islands 

 Avere known, but the ocean to the east of the Asiatic coast 

 is named Furtie de la jl/e>- Bormante, the name, as engraved 



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