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Followinjj on tliis change, the name" Sea of Kamtchatlca 

 was changed to Gulf of KamtchatlM, and relegated to its 

 original i>lace on the shore of the peninsula of the same 

 name, while the names Olutorslci and Anadir likewise be- 

 came confined to the respective gulfs on the Siberian coast. 

 For the most modern usage in this respect, see United 

 States Hydrograpliic Office Chart No. 08, 1890, and British 

 Admiralty Chart ^o. 24G0, 1889. 



It is very noteworthy, however, in studying any series of 

 Maps chronologically arranged, that up to the middle of 

 the present century Behring Sea is frequently without any 

 general name, while the adjoining Sea of Okhotsk is in 

 almost every instance clearly designated. 



Had the circumstances with respect to the nomenclature 

 of Behring Sea been different, and had that body of water 

 been consistently supi)lied v/ith a distinctive name on all 

 Maps, it would, however, by no means necessarily follow 

 tliat this was intended to show that it was not a part of 

 the Pacific Ocean. An ocean may, and in all cases actually 

 does, include numerous seas and gulfs as subordinate divi- 

 sions. The mere fact that the name of the Xorth Pacific 

 Ocean, or equivalent name in use at different periods, is 

 not usually engraved partly upon the area of Behring Sea 

 in the Maps, affVnds no valid argument for such separation. 

 The name of this ocean is generally found to be engraved, 

 in large characters, ujjon its widest and most open part, 

 somewhere to the south of the 50th jiarallel, and between 

 that jiarallel and the Equator. This usage follows as a 

 result of the actual form of the ocean, and the necessity 

 of giving due jn-ominence to its name. 



The United States Government has, in this controversy, j.g^^/^«P«^*«U>' 

 attached imi)ortance to the very early employment of someMr.Biainemhis 

 distinctive name for Behring Sea, and reference has been ^g^n'^isoo^''^'^ 

 made to several of the older Maps. 



It is, however, submitted that even in restricting the (^.^^f ' Appfndlxt 

 argument to Maps, the important question is that relating vol. i, p. 2S7. 

 to the Maps and Charts of the years immediately antece- 

 dent to 1824: and 1825, in which years the Conventions deal- 

 ing with the Ukase of 1821 were concluded. 



To such Maps the negotiators doubtless referred 



Eeverting, however, to the earlier Maps specially in- 

 stanced by the United States Government, it will be found 

 that even these do not bear out the assertions based by Mr. 

 Blaine upon them. 



A Map illustrating Cook's voyages, and published in 

 1784, is first referred to as showing the ^^ Sea of Kam- 

 tehatka" in "absolute contradistinction to the Great South 

 Sea or Pacific Ocean." 



This is doubtless the Map published by William Faden 

 in 1784, and included in the list attached to Mr. Blaine's 

 note. 



In this Map the name Sea of Kamtchatlca is written across 

 Behring Sea, and Gulf of Anadyr is the term applied to 

 the indentation of the coast into which the river of the 

 same name Hows. 



The special value attached to this Map by Mr. Blaine, in No. is in List, 

 support of his contention, entirely disappears when the^'^** 



