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 point on Bell Island, and gives a portion of the mainlind coast to Great Britain. “Any theory that so eventnates cannot stand under the treaty. for there is no possible construction of the treaty whieh will enable Great Britain to claim any part of au island opposite the imainiind coast or any part of the maintand coast.

Fifth Question. “IN EXTENDING THE LINE OF DEMARCATION NORTHWARD FROM SAID POINT ON TILE PARALLEL OF THE MTU DEGREE OF NORTH LATITUDE, FOLLOWING THE CREST OF THE MOUNTAINS SITUATED PAHALLEL TO TUE COAST UNTLL ITs INTER- SECTION WITH THE L4lsT DEGREE OF LONGITUDE WeEsr OF CrnKEN- WICTL SUBJECT TO THE CONDITION THAT IF SUCH LINK SHOULD ANYWHERE EXCEED THE DISTANCE OF TEN MARINE LEAGUES FROM TIE OCEAN, THEN THE BOUNDARY BETWEEN THE Brrrisn AXD THE RUSSIAN TERRITORY SHOULD BE FORMED BY A LINE PAR- ALLEL TO THE SINCOSITIES OF THE COAST AND DISTANT TILERE- FROM NOT MOKE THAN TEN MAKINE LEAGUES, WAS IT THE INTEN- TION AND MBANING OF SAID CONVENTION OF 1825 THAT THERE SHOULD REMAIN IN THE EXCLUSIVE POSSESSION OF RUSSIA A CON- TINUOUS FRINGE OR STRIP GP COAST ON THE MAINLAND, NOT EX- CERDING TEN MARINE LEAGUES IN WIDTH, SEPARATING THE Brit- isi PosskssIoNS FROM TITER BAYS, PORTS. INLETS, HAVENS, AND WATERS OF THE OCEAN, AND EXTENDING FROM THE SAID POINT ON THE SUTH DEGREE OF LATITUDE NORTH TO A POINT WHERE SUCH LINE OF DEMARCATION SHOULD INTERSECT TIIE 141sT DEGREE oF LONGITUDE WEST OF THE MERIDIAN OF GREENWICH!”

The discussion of the fifth question necessarily involves 4 considera- tion of the essential features of the sixth and seventh questions, which ure as follows:

Sixth Question. “Tr TUR FOREGOING QUESTION SIlOULD Br ANSWERED IN THE NEGATIVE, AND IN THE EVENT OF THE SUMMIT OF SUCH MOUNTAINS PROVING TO KE IN PLACES MORE TIAN TEN MARINE LEAGUES FUOM ‘THE COAST, SHOULD THE WIDTH OF THE LISIERE WHICH WAS TO BELONG TO Russta Be MEASURED (1) FROM THE MAINLAND COAST OF THE OCEAN, STRICTLY SO-CALLED. ALONG A LINE PERPENDICULAR THERETO, OR (2) WAS IT THE INTENTION AND MEANING OF THE SAID CONVENTION THAT WHERE THE MAINLAND COAST 18 INDENTED RY DEEP INLETS FORMING PART OF THE TERRI