APPENDIX TO COUNTER-CASE OP GREAT BRITAIN. 421 



88 Tliis list of 105 Maps, fhougli apparently forniid- j^Mapa^cat^a- 



able from its very length, is found to extend from the rias'iireil^/Mn 

 year 1743 to the year 1829, both inclusive, and consists ^!^^j°^g|:°,g^*'jj^: 

 solely of Maps upon which a special designation of some cember n, isgo. 

 kind is supposed to be found for Behring Sea. 



As already stated, this proves nothing with regard to the 

 relation of Behring Sea to the Pacific as a whole; while it 

 is further observable that, in compiling the list, many Maps 

 of very doubtful or imperfect character have been included 

 with others of undoubted authenticity and value. 



Thus, in respect to Cook's explorations, but a single Map 

 is cited, while the official and original Maps are ignored, as 

 has already been explained. 



Again, from Thompson's large atlas, of date 1817, but a 

 single Map is cited, aiul this without such reference as to 

 enable it to be identified; while, as a matter of fact, in this 

 Atlas, Behring Sea ai)pears upon three Maps as the Sea of 

 Kamtchatla. On three other Maps this name is evidently 

 confined to the waters immediately adjacent to the penin- 

 sula of the same name, and on two, the greater x^art of 

 Behring Sea is included without any name. 



Under date 1819, a Map by Burney is quoted as show- 

 ing the name Sea of Kamtchatlia applied to Behring Sea, 

 but the only Map by that author and of that date which it 

 has been possible to find is a "Chart of the north coast of 

 Asia, and of the sea to the north of Behring Strait," iu 

 which the greater part of Behring Sea is included, but 

 without name, though the northern portion of the Sea of 

 Okhotsk, also included, is prominently named. 



Still, again, under 1825, a Map in Butler's Atlas (doubt- 

 less No. 16) is quoted as showing the name Sea of Kam- 

 tchatka, while the first Map in that Atlas upon which Beh- 

 ring Sea appears without name (though the Sea of OJchotsle 

 and other similar seas are named) is ignored. 



The following are definitions found in the gazetteers, 

 dictionaries, and geographies of the world, both of the 

 present and old dates, touching the Pacific Ocean, Behring 

 Sea, Kamtchatka, &c., which show that Behring Sea has 

 been from the year 1795 down to the present regarded as 

 part of the Pacific Ocean. 



"Kamschatka Sea is a large branch of the Oriental or ^^^•■^^J^^^'JJj^l,'^^^^^ 

 North Pacific Ocean." Londou,i795,voi. 



ii. p. 4. 



"Beering's Straits, which is the passage from the North ibid.,voi.i,p.42. 

 Pacific Ocean to the Arctic Sea." 



"Beering's Island. An island iu the Pacific Ocean. ..^Jj^^^^j^'^?^^^-' 

 [Behring's Island is in Behring's Sea.] teer, i802. 



" Kamschatka. Bounded east and south by Pacific." 



" Kamtschatka. Bounded on the north by the country .c^rnlm/rcrai 

 of the Koriacs, on the east and south by the North Pacific Dictionary," 

 Ocean, and on the west by the Sea of Okotsk." ^^°^" 



" Beering's Island. In the North Pacific Ocean." Di^tifn ary"" 



London, 1804. 



