APPENDIX TO COUNTER-CASE OF GREAT BRITAIN. 425 



"Although differing from the Atlantic in its general form, 

 being more nearly land- locked to the north, the Pacific 

 Ocean resenibles it in being 0])en to the south, forming, in 

 fact, a great projection northwards of that vast Southern 

 Ocean of which the Atlantic is another arm. 



" The Pacific is the largest expanse of water in the world, 

 covering more tlian a quarter of its superficies, and com- 

 prising fully one lialf of its water surface. 



^'It extends through 132 degrees of latitude, in other 

 words, it measures 0,000 miles from north to south. From 

 east to west its breadth varies from about 40 miles at Beli- 

 ring Strait, where Asia and America come within sight of 

 each other, to 8,500 miles from California and China on the 

 Tropic of Cancer, and to more than 10,000 miles on the 

 Eqnator, between Quito and the Moluccas, where the ocean 

 is the widest. The area has been variously estimated at 

 from 50,000,000 to 100,000,000 square miles; but, defining 

 its boundaries as above, Keith Johnston, from careful 

 measurements, estimated it, with jirobably a near approach 

 to the truth, at 67,810,000 square miles." 



" Behring Sea. That part of the North Pacific Ocean i^^°!V'az"u(e?' 

 between the Aleutian Islands in 50° and Behring Strait in Londou'isiiTh- 

 60° IST., by which latter it communicates with the Arctic ^*^- 

 Ocean (Behring Sea)." 



"Anadyr Biver. Falls into an inlet of the Sea of Anadyr ^^i'^- p- ^'^■ 

 (North Pacific)." 



"Extending from the Arctic to the Antarctic Circle, uj?^i°f,*.°";i 

 through 126° of latitude." Geograj.hy," 



° London, 1877. 



". . . . It narrows especially towards the north, ^^^^• 

 where it communicates with the Arctic Ocean by Behring 

 Strait." 



" Behring (Detroit de). Passage qui unit I'Oc^an Glacial st. Martin's 

 Arctique au Grand Ocean." tio'^iSae o^oi 



graphie Uuiverselle," tomei, Paris, 1879. 



" Behring Sea, or Sea of Kamchatka, is that part of the Lippincotts 

 North Pacific Ocean between the Aleutian Islands in lati- woriS'^Phiia''. 

 tude 55° north and Behring Strait in latitude 6ij° north, by deiphia, isao. 

 which latter it communicates with the Arctic Ocean." 



" Behring Strait. The channel which separates Asia and iwd. 

 America .... and connects the Arctic with the 

 Pacific Ocean." 



"Pacific Ocean .... extendsfromthe Arctic to the iwd. 

 Antarctic Circle, over 133 degrees of latitude." 

 91 "Behring, or Bhering. A strait, sea, island, and bay, r.ryce and 

 North Pacific Ocean." cioplLliiirofOfos- 



rapliy," London and Glasgow, 1880. 



"Bering's Meer. Der nordcistlichste Teil des Stillen Brockhaus' 



Ocean's" "Conversations 



v^CCclU &<. Lexicon," Leip- 



zig, 1882. 



"Beringsstrasse. Meerengedas nordostlfchste Eismeer Kitter's " Geo- 

 mit dem Stillen Ocean verbindend." S'''l«!cod,'' 



Leipzig, 1883. 



" Behring Sea is that part of the North Pacific Ocean J'^v^*',*^?^ "'^ 

 between the Aleutian Islands .... and Behring Strait." don, i885Vvoi?'ii 



p. 199. 



