Alaska and the Klondike gold fields : containing a full account of the discovery of gold; enormous deposits of the precious metal; routes traversed by miners; ... . e of 141 degrees in itsprolongation as far as the Frozen Ocean. The Boundary Line. With reference to the line of demarkation laid down in thepreceding article it is understood (i) that the island called Princeof Wales Island shall belong wholly to Russia (now by thissession to the United States). (2) That whenever the summitof the mountains, which extend in a direction parallel to the coatsfrom 56 degrees of north latitude to the p
Alaska and the Klondike gold fields : containing a full account of the discovery of gold; enormous deposits of the precious metal; routes traversed by miners; ... . e of 141 degrees in itsprolongation as far as the Frozen Ocean. The Boundary Line. With reference to the line of demarkation laid down in thepreceding article it is understood (i) that the island called Princeof Wales Island shall belong wholly to Russia (now by thissession to the United States). (2) That whenever the summitof the mountains, which extend in a direction parallel to the coatsfrom 56 degrees of north latitude to the point of intersection of141 degrees of west longitude, shall prove to be of the distanceof more than three marine leagues from the ocean, the limit be- 268 HISTORY AND PURCHASE OF ALASKA. twccn the British possessions and the line of coast which is tobelong to Russia, as abave mentioned (that is to say, the limit ofthe possessions ceded by this convention), shall be formed by aline parallel to the winding of the coast, and which shall neverexceed the distance of ten marine leagues therefrom. It is an item of historical interest that, for the last twenty-eight. KILLING SEALS ON ST. PAUL ISLAND. years of Russian ownership of Alaska, the thirty mile strip, as itwas called, was leased to the Hudson Bay Company, which paid anannual rental for the territory which Canada now claims as her G. M. Dawson, of the Dominion Geological Survey, in1887 and 1888 invented a new map showing the boundary lineclaimed b\ his government, as drawn by Major-General R. This narrows the thirty-mile strip to five miles ins(ime places, and absorbs it entirely as part of British Columbiain others. HISTORY AND PURCHASE OF ALASKA. 269 This Cameron lino includes all of Glacier Bay, Lynn Canal,and Taku Inlet. It also incorporates all of the Stikine River,and, ignoring the channel known as Portland Channel, it strikento tide water at the head of Burroughs Bay, and follows BehmCanal and Clarence
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