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 same subject on asmatler seule, likewise designates the entire hody of water by placing the mune * Porthund Canal” as mearly as possible opposite the centre in larger type, while the mune ‘Observatory Inlet.” is placed atone the entire “Draineh” terminating at Point Ramsden, in smaller type.

Nothing on this subject can be drawn from the Russian Map of 1s02, inclosed in Sir C. Bagot’s No. 56, for the reason that the names in question were not reproduced. And the same may he said of Lanws- dorifs niap of LS08—4-5 (No. T of the British s\tlas) because the seate isso small that the inlets cannot be identified, While the scale of Waleb’s nap. Angsburg, LSO7, is also too small to be decisive one way or the other, Pinkertow’s Modern Atlas, “from Mr Arrowsmith's map” of Isis, fortities the Ainericun contention based on the manner in which the munes were originally printed. The printing of the names on Brne’s map of ISLS—-L) indieates nothing material in favor of either party. Before commenting upon the Arrowsmith map ot [s822, with additions to 1823 (No. 10 of the United States Atlas). a map known to bave been before the negotiators, the faet should be enphasized that its author, ** Hydrograpber to His Majesty,” produced, during a lone period of years a series of official or semi-oflicial maps of the highest charzeterand authority. Inthe Arrowsmith map just referred to, the mune "* Portland Canal” is so printed as unquestionably to refer to the entire ‘tarm of the sea” or fiord, while the name of **Obserya- tory Inlet" is so printed as unquestionably to refer only te the “branch” ending at Point Rameden,

The maps of Fuden (Nos. LO and Li of the British Ath, the first of which is known to have heen before the newotiators), published hy his successor James Wyld, "Geographer to His Majesty.” after citing the authorities on which they are based, including Vanconver. tell the sume story so far as the printing of the names is concerned. If it is to be assumed that the negotiators of the treaty of 1525 had before them every map or chart published hetore that time. it cannot he denied that the dominant and central facet that confronted them, on every one of importanee. including those of Vancouver, was that the mime Porthid Canal” was so placed and printed as uimistakably to extend its application to the entire ‘arm of the sean” in question, while the nanie Observatory Jalet’ was so plied and printed as uninistakably to limit its application to the * branch” ending at Point Ramsden.