3o6 FISHERIES ARBITRATION AT THE HAGUE 



Senator Root: King's Chambers are partly narrow seas and 

 partly chambers between headlands. 



The President: But not bays? 



Senator Root: Yes, chambers between headlands are bays. 

 "Chambers between headlands" was an expression in customary 

 use and was used by these very people to refer to bays, or to indenta- 

 tions in the coast which were larger than the ordinary interior bay 

 that came within the territorial zone measured from the shore. 



The Presh)ENt: For instance, was the place where the "Argus" 

 was seized a chamber within headlands, or was the place where 

 the "Washington" was seized — the Bay of Fundy — a chamber 

 between headlands? 



Senator Root: The place where the "Washington" was seized 

 was a chamber between headlands. 



The President: Would you make no distinction between the 

 place where the "Argus" was seized and the place where the 

 "Washington" was seized? 



Senator Root: There is no distinction between the two places 

 except that the width of the chamber between headlands in the 

 "Argus" case was much greater than the width of the chamber 

 between headlands in the ' ' Washington ' ' case. The ' ' Washington " 

 was seized between headlands in the Bay of Fundy and the "Argus" 

 was seized up here (indicating on map) in an indentation between 

 Cape North and some other point. 



The President: Would the place where the "Argus" was 

 seized, in the geographical sense, be called a bay? 



Senator Root: I could not say whether it would or not. It 

 might as well be called a bay as the Gulf of Lyons or the Gulf of 

 Genoa might be called gulfs. Many quite shallow indentations in 

 the shore are called bays. 



Judge Gray: There is Egmont Bay, a very shallow bay on 

 Prince Edward Island, a mere Httle cove or horseshoe, and yet it 

 is called a bay. 



