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 MAPS AND CHARTS PUBLISHED stser Ts2o.

Nothing could be more emphatic than the confirmation given to the statement just tide in the map (Am, Athi No. 12). whieh appears te he the first Britixh map published after the making of the treaty of Iszs. That such map was intended to be an interpretation of that treaty is made certain by the following printed on its face; ‘* Note, Wherever the summit of the mountains (which are supposed to extend in direction parallel to the coast) from the 46th degree of N. Lat. to the point of intersection of the L4ist dewree of W. Long. shall prove to be at the distance of inore thiam UW marine leacnes tron the Ocmian, the limit between the British Possessions and the line of const whieh is to belong to Russia, shall be formed lv a line parallel to the wind- ings of the coast and which shall neyer exceed 10 marine leagues there- from. See Article 4th Treaty [825.~

On the face of that map. the two ishinds, Wales and Pearse, which are correctly located, ave distinctly colored as Russian in yellow, that color being used throughout to desivnate the territory contirmed to Russia by the treaty: while the three islands on the east side of the “inal. Somerville, Compton and Tuira, are as distinetly colored in pink, that color being used throughout to designate the territory cou- firmed to Great Britain by the treaty, As evidence of the fact that the construction thus put upon the treaty of 1825 by Arrowsinith was identical with that put npon it by the French geovraphers, reference is made to the imap of Brué. published at Paris, 1838 (Am, Atlas. No, 13). in which the dividing line between British and Russian ter- ritory is thus deserihed: Léwite eatre tes prosessions Lugleatses of Rises, Papres le traité de 1825. ‘The line in question is a distinet dotted line. following the contention of the United States. and there- fore including Wales and Pearse Islands in Kussian territory.

But more conclusive still is the Admiralty chart (No. 25 of the British Atlas) entitled ** Port Simpson to Nuss Village,” of 1868, issued hy the highest geographical authority known to the British Enipire—the British Admiralty. Tt is hard to understand why the following caveat showld have been inserihed on the face of this chart: ‘The mune Port- land Canal on this sheet was inserted by the Surveyors without author- ity, The name Portland Lolet as applied to the -outhermmest part of what Vancouver called Observatory Inlet, was copied from yn Adini- ralty Chart of 1853. By whose authority this name was applied in