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States. In the exchange of mutually 

 necessary commodities, in length of 

 frontage upon the ocean, in harbors, in 

 way stations for vessels and cables, in 

 advantageous points for distribution 

 and concentration of trade, and even in 

 the currents of air and water which 

 nature has given, the- conditions favor 

 the United States. Indeed, when we 

 consider all these things, we might al- 

 most claim the Pacific as essentially our 

 own. Stretching along its eastern coast 



from the tropics to the Arctic, thence 

 across its northern borders, then for 

 more than a thousand miles on its west- 

 ern shore, in the Samoan group on the 

 south, and in a line of islands across its 

 very center, the American flag floats, 

 and will continue to float, and by its 

 presence, its ennobling purposes, and 

 its power for civilization and advance- 

 ment it proclaims, and will continue to 

 proclaim, that the Pacific is, and will re- 

 main, an American ocean. 



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Map No. 7. " The Pacific is, and will remain, an American Ocean ' 



