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13G. Carte de l'Ocean Pacifique. In Atlas accoin- '^w. 

 panying- Duflot de Morfas' work. Paris, 1844. 



Behring Sea without name, though Mer d'OMioisIc, &c., 

 are prominently named. 



Det. de Bering. Grand Ocean Septentrional. 



Tlie particulars above given show in what manner and to 

 what extent the terms Sea of Kamtchatlca and Behring Sea 

 had been and were used, at about the time of the Ukase of 

 1821 and the consequent negotiations, in Maps, upon which 

 the United States appears to rely rather than upon dis- 

 tinct geographical definitions. 



In 49 of the 136 Maps above quoted a separate name 

 (usually Sea of Kamtchatka) is given to the portion of the 

 North Pacific Ocean now known as Behring Sea. On the 

 remaining 87 Maps no general name for the Sea appears, 

 though on 25 the names "Sea of Kamtchatka," "Sea of 

 Anadyr," "Beaver Sea," «&c., are given as referring only to 

 certain parts of the sea adjacent to the Asiatic coast. 



2.— On the Use of the Names "jSIorth- Eastern 

 Ocean," "Eastern Ocean." 



In regard to the term Korth-Eastern Sea or Eastern Ocean, u-nitea states 

 which it is claimed was also used as a distinctive name forCaso, p. 5x 

 what is now generally known as Behring Sea, it is to be 

 remarked that neither of these terms is noted as being used 

 upon any of the Maps contained in the selected list brought 

 forward by the United States. 



1. North-Easfern Sea. — The only instances cited for the 

 use of North-Eastern Sea, as another name for Behring Sea, 

 are the first and third Charters of the Kussian-American 

 Company. 



In the first — the Ukase of 1799 — the expression used is 

 North-Eastern Ocea7i — not North-Eastern Sea — which ap- 

 plies to the waters from Behring Strait down to 55° north 

 latitude, and therefore includes waters outside Behring 

 Sea. The Kurile Islands are also distinctly mentioned as 

 being included in the waters covered by the expression. 



In the third Charter — of 1844 — North-Eastern Sea is 

 used. The wording of the paragraph does not make it 

 quite so clear, as in the Ukase of 1799, that the Kurile 

 Islands are included in the waters so designated, though 

 the presumption is strong that this is so ; but as the south- 

 ern limit is 54° 40' north latitude, the term obviously 

 includes the waters south of Behring Sea. 



North-Eastern Sea is also used in the Ukase of Nicholas 

 of the 29th March (10th April), 1829 (confirming the 

 Charter of 1821), and evidently applies to all the waters 

 down to 54° 40' north latitude. This passage is not cited 

 by the United States. 



The position assumed by the United States makes it 

 necessary for them to endeavour to explain the term North- 

 Eastern Ocean used in these Charters as being a distinctive 

 name for Behring Sea, but no other authority for its use in 



