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tied "Captain Cook on the Nortli-west Coast of Amerioa." 

 This title is continued as a side-note to the pages following 

 as far as to p. 2-9, or from the point at which Cook first 

 sighted the land in latitude 44^° to Unalaska. After this 

 point "west coast" is substituted for '']U)rth-west coast," 

 thus showing where the author, who was a member of Cook's 

 ex])edition, supposed the north-west coast to end. 



As the result of the examination of a large series of 

 maps, rehiting particularly to the dates near to that of the 

 Ukase of 1821 and the Conventions of 1821 and 1825, it is 

 found that this term is seldom employed, and then only 

 with a very lax and general meaning. 



On Miiller's Map of 171)1, republished by Jeffreys in Lon- 

 don, the description "IS'orth-west Coast of America" occurs 

 in the title only, while the coast delineated extends to 

 Avhat is now known as Behring Strait. A map x^ublished 

 in the "London Magazine" in 17(U, also refers to "North- 

 west Coast of America" in its title, but as it is merely a 

 reduced copy of Miiilers map, does not throw any further 

 light on the subject. 



Coming down to the date of Cook's third voyage in 1784, 

 we again find a corresponding title, viz., "Chart of the 

 Korth-west Coast of America and North-east Coast of 

 Asia." This chart is drawn so as to include the coast from 

 the vicinity of the point where it was first reached by Cook 

 (about latitude 44^) to ley Cape, situated north of Behring 

 Strait and in the Arctic Ocean. The same remarks apply 

 to the corresponding map in the French edition of Cook's 

 Voyage, dated 1785. 



In 1708, Vancouver's Voyage contains "A Chart show- 

 ing part of the coast of North-west America," and this 

 includes the coast line continuously- from latitude 30<^ to a 

 point a little west of Kadiak Island. 



A few years later, in 1802, we find Charts 1 to 3 pub- 

 lished in connection with the voyage of the " Sutil" and 

 "Mexicana," in Madrid, entitled "-La Costa Kord-ouest de 

 America^ These continuously include from about latitude 

 17° northward and westward to Unalaska Island in the 

 Aleutian chain. 

 "Britiah Case, Another chart, also published in 1802, by the Quarter- 

 Appendix, ^o^- juj^ster-GeneraTs Department, Kussia, shows (in Kussian 

 characters) the legend "Part of the north-west coast of 

 America" running on the continental land from a point 

 near the coast and to the north of Behring Strait, contin- 

 uously to a point between the 53rd and 54th degrees of 

 latitude. 



In Eossi's Atlas, published in Milan in 1820, on Map 6, 

 the name Costa nord-ouest actually appears engraved on 

 the face of the map, and runs from a point a little to the 

 west of the head of Cook's Inlet on the continental land 

 southward to about the 50th paraHcl, while on another map 

 in the same atlas (No. 30) the words Parte della Costa Nord- 

 ouest dcir America are shown extending along the land 

 from the longitude of Kadiak southward to latitude 39°, 

 or much further than in tlie first instance notwithstanding 

 the restriction of the title. 



