The Alaska frontier . brok ) *--. JDrson EntraDce -K^f rp ^if^. British Admiralty Chart, Published June 2IST, 1877, under the Superintendence ofCaptain F. J. Evans, R. N., Hydrographer, and Corrected to April, 1898. MAP No. 22, I06 THE ALASKA FRONTIER. Unfortunately, too, for the adroit Canadian argu-ment that the Portland Channel and the PortlandCanal cannot possibly mean the same estuary, it isconclusively proved by comparing the English textsand the authorized French translation of VancouversVoyages that the name of Portland Channel andthe Portland Canal mean one and th
The Alaska frontier . brok ) *--. JDrson EntraDce -K^f rp ^if^. British Admiralty Chart, Published June 2IST, 1877, under the Superintendence ofCaptain F. J. Evans, R. N., Hydrographer, and Corrected to April, 1898. MAP No. 22, I06 THE ALASKA FRONTIER. Unfortunately, too, for the adroit Canadian argu-ment that the Portland Channel and the PortlandCanal cannot possibly mean the same estuary, it isconclusively proved by comparing the English textsand the authorized French translation of VancouversVoyages that the name of Portland Channel andthe Portland Canal mean one and the same iden-tical body of water. In the English originals of Vancouvers Voyagesthe text reads: In the forenoon we reached that arm of the sea,whose examination had occupied our time from the27th of the preceding to the 2d. of this month. Thedistance from its entrance to its source is about 70miles ; which, in honor of the noble family of Ben-tinck, I named Portlands Canal. ^^ Again, in the edition of 1801, the text runs thus: In the forenoon we reached that arm of the sea,whose e
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