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this limited sense has been adduced, and the Charters 

 themselves, as shown above, clearly fail to support the 

 interpretation claimed by the United States. 



2. Eastern Ocean. — The authorities quoted by the United 

 States for the use of this term as applied to Behriug- Sea 

 only are two in number: (a) A Map which forms the fron- 

 tispiece of "Coxe's Russian Discoveries;" (6) Globe, by 

 D. Adams, London, 1797. This is quoted in a foot-note to 

 the list of Maps, p. 290, vol. i. It did not appear in the 

 list appended to Mr. Blaine's note of the 17th December, 



1890. 

 104 With regard to (a), it is to be observed that, 



although in the Map on the frontispiece of Coxe, 

 edition of 1803, Eastern Ocean is written on the ocean to 

 the north of the Aleutian Islands, no name is actually 

 written across the comparatively small portion of the ocean 

 to the south of these islands included by the Map ; and that 

 in a further Map (facing p. 248) of Krenitzin's and Leva- 

 sheffs Voyage to the Fox Islands in 1768 and 1769, Eastern 

 Ocean is written so as to include the waters south of the 

 Aleutian Islands as well as those to the north. 



Further, in the first sentence of Chapter I, Part I (p. 21, 

 ed. 1803), Coxe says : 



The possession of Kamtchatka was soon followed by voyages of dis- 

 covery to the North Pacific Ocean. 



Then follows an account of Peter the Great's plan of a 

 voyage to ascertain the separation, contiguity, or connec- 

 tion of Asia and America, with his instructions to Vitus 

 Beering. 



At p. 110 of the same edition the following passage occurs : 



A full and judicious account of all the discoveries hitherto made in 

 the Eastern Ocean may be expected from Miiller. Meanwhile, the fol- 

 lowing narrative, extracted from original papers, and procured from 

 the best intelligence, may be acceptable to the public. 



The narrative that follows is one of voyages to the Aleu- 

 tian Islands and Kadyak, and it is mentioned that the ex- 

 plorers in some instances first sailed south from Behring 

 Island and Kamtchatka in search of land (pp. 142, 150); 

 but being disappointed, bore north for the Aleutian Islands. 



It is thus quite clear that the term Eastern Ocean, as 

 here employed, is not a special designation of Behring Sea, 

 but a synonym of Pacific Ocean, precisely analogous to the 

 term Western Ocean, which is often employed in Europe for 

 the Atlantic Ocean. Behring Sea was, in fact, a part of 

 the Eastern Ocean of Coxe, who thus uses it in the same 

 sense as that in which Korth-Eastern Sea or Ocean was 

 employed in the Russian (Uiarters above alluded to. 



(6.) The Globe by D. Adams, London, 1797, which is the 

 only other authority quoted for the limited application 

 of the term Eastern Ocean, has not been found, though 

 two earlier Globes by the same author, dated 1769 [%] and 

 1772 [°l], are in the King's Library at the British Museum. 



These Globes, as is to be expected from their early dates, 

 show a very imperfect knowledge of the regions in question. 



The names, which are in Latin, and the configuration cor- 



