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second edition issued ten years later is inspected, and spe- 

 cial attention is directed to tlie detailed description of this 

 latter Map at p. 94 of this Appendix. 



It will be seen that the second edition bears the same 

 title as the first, with the addition of a face-note indicating 

 that numerous improvements have been inserted. One of 

 these improvements is the transfer of the name Sea of 

 Kamtchatlia to the waters immediately adjacent to the coast 

 of that i)eninsula, leaving the main body of Behring Sea 

 without any distinctwe name. As the natural consequence 

 of this change, Sea of Anadyr appears instead of Gulf of 

 Anadyr. 



Turning to the Maps in the olficially published account 

 of Cook's third voyage, likewise dated in 1784, both those 

 in the quarto and octavo editions, and those also in French 

 and German translations of somewhat later date, it is 

 found that Behring Sea appears absolutely and markedly 

 without any distinctive name. 



The Map published in the "London Magazine" in 1764, 

 which is next cited, is a reduction of Miiller's Map, which 

 has already been referred to. 



The circumstances under which the names Sea of Kam- 

 tchatlia and Sea of Anadir appear on these Maps have been 

 noted on a previous page, and are such as to show that 

 neither of them can be justly referred to as applying to the 

 area of Behring Sea as now known. 



In further endeavouring to maintain his position as to 

 the essential separateness of Behring Sea from tlie Pacific 

 Ocean, as understood by geographers of the time, Mr. 

 Blaine adds an enumeration of a number of Maps as 

 United States "luclosure B" to his letter above referred to. 

 Case, No. 1(1891), He rcfcrs to these Maps in the following terms: 

 P' ^^' " I inclose a list of a large proportion of the most authen- 



tic Maps published during the ninety years prior to 1825 

 in Great Britain, in the United States, the Netherlands, 

 France, Spain, Germany, Russia — in all 105 Maps — on 

 every one of which the body of water now known as Beh- 

 ring's Sea was j)lainly distinguished by a name separate 

 from the Pacific Ocean. On the great majority it is named 

 the Sea of Kamschatka, a few use the name of Behring, 

 w^hile several other designations are used. The whole 

 number, aggregating, as they did, the opinion of a large 

 part of the civilized world, distinguished the sea, no matter 

 under what name, as altogether separate from the Pacific 

 Ocean." 



It has so far only been found possible to identify a small 

 number of these Maps, but on about half of these the dis- 

 tinguishing names "Sea of Kamtchatka" and "Sea of 

 Anadyr" are placed either on the coast of Kamtchatka" or 

 in the Gulf of Anadyr respectively, and no name whatever 

 appears as a general name for "the body of water now 

 known as Behring Sea." 



On the other Maps examined, when the name Sea of 

 Kamtchatka is placed so as to inchule the whole of Behring 

 Sea, it is in every case printed in the same characters of 

 equivalent importance to those employed for the name of 

 the Sea of Okotsk. 



