APPENDIX TO COUNTER-CASE OF GREAT BRITAIN. 423 



Gulf of Okliotsk, between Kamtchatka and the mainland 

 of Eussia — all three in the Pacifio Ocean." 



" L'Ocean Pacilique Boreal s'etend depiiis le D6troit de 

 Behring iusnu'au tropin ue de Cancer." ^,"'^'''",^ 'i" l** 



versollo, par Malte-Brun, vol. ii, p. 181, tiilition 18:^5. 



Ditto, vol. viii, 

 p. 4. 



"Le Detroit de Behrin<^. A commencer par ce d^troit, 

 le Grand Ocean (ou Ocean Paciii(iue) Ibruie la limite orien- 

 tale de I'Asie." j^^^ ,^.^ ..^.^ 



" Behring (detroit celehre). II joint I'Ocdan Glacial Arc- tionnaire <ie g6o- 

 tique an Grand Ocean." " graphie," i838. 



"The Pa(;ific Ocean. Its boundary-line is pretty well " Penny Cycio- 

 deterniined by tlie adjacent continents, which approach one^*' "*' 

 another towards the north, and at Behring's Strait, which 

 separates them, are only about 30 miles apart. This strait 

 may be considered as closing the Pacific on the north." 



"Behring (Detroit de) A, rextrcmite nord-est de I'Asie, ".^j"*'"^""'?® 

 R(^pare Continent <le I'Amerique et I'Ocean Glacial Arctique wiTriTdolht 

 de I'Ocean Pacifique. n '''b o'n uTe^' 



"Behring (Mer de). Partie de I'Ocean Pacifique." Parish i8'42. 



" Behring Strait. The channel which connects the Xorth ^^rcCuiiogh, j. 

 Pacific with the Arctic Oceans." cai Dictkjf'ary,'' 



London, 1849. 



"Behring (Detroit de). Canal de I'ocean . . . "Dictionnaire, 



miissant les eaux de I'Ocean Pacifique a celles de I'Ocean statistique," par 



Arr-f-inno" Adrien Guibert, 



"Pacific Ocean. Between longitude 70° west and 110° "The New 

 east, that is, for a space of over 180^, it covers the greater ^^lia/'edHwiby 

 part of the earth's surface, from Behring Straits to tlie^j^*'^"'g'®^KJpiey 

 Polar Circle, that separates it from the Antarctic Ocean." i)aria,NewYork; 



"Behring Island is situated in the ^North Pacific." ^^^^^n lish c 



clopaedia," London, 1854-62. Geography, vol. i, p. 907. 



"Kanitchatka, a peninsula projecting from the north- ibid.,voi.ii,p. 

 eastern part of Asia into the Pacific Ocean." 



"Behring (Detroit de). Canal du Grand Ocf^anunissant .-Grand di 

 les eaux de I'Ocean Pacifique a celles de I'Ocean Glacial tionnaire de Ge- 



ArnfinnA ographieUuiver- 



-arCUque. selle," par M. 



Uescherelle, Aiu6, 4 vols., 1855. 



"Behring Sea, sometimes called the Sea of Kamtchatka, gj'^'Jj^?,e[j|i.Gaz- 

 is that ])ortion of the North Pacific Ocean lying between 

 the Aleutian Islands and Behring's Strait." 



"Behring Strait, tlie channel which separates Asia and,.^."'"!?^'''^"^*?- 



A • Til • i. 1 i. 1 ^1 -I ti8tical Gazet- 



America at their nearest approach to each other, and con- teer of the 

 nects the Arctic with the Pacific Ocean. cwvin' SmUhi 



"Russian America comprises the whole of the continent ^evir York, 1855'. 

 of North-west America west of longitude 341° west and a 

 strip on the coast extending south to latitude 55° north, 

 bounded on the east by British America, south and west 

 by the Pacific Ocean, and north by the Arctic Ocean and 

 the following island groups," &c. 



"Behring's Island. An island in the North Pacific rmiartnn's 



Oopun " "Gazetteer of 



^^'-'**'''' the World," 1856. 



"Behring's Strnit, which connects the Pacific with the ."^7f\,".P*'V;'i 

 Arctic Ocean, is formed by the approach of the continents by Chas^Knigh't, 

 of America and Asia." i^^- 



