The Alaska frontier . Map prepared by Captain Tebenkoff, of the Imperial Russian Navy, 1849. MAP No. Map of the Russian Empire to accompany Hills Travels, 1854. MAP No. 13. IMPORTANT MAPS. 35 affairs of the Hudsons Bay Company was held bya special committee of the House of Commons. Atthat investigation, Sir George Simpson, who was ex-amined, presented a map of the territory in question,and, speaking for the Company, said: There is amargin of coast, marked yellow on the map, from54° 40 up to Cross Sound, which we have rentedfrom the Russian Company. (See Map No. 14.)This map shows that the
The Alaska frontier . Map prepared by Captain Tebenkoff, of the Imperial Russian Navy, 1849. MAP No. Map of the Russian Empire to accompany Hills Travels, 1854. MAP No. 13. IMPORTANT MAPS. 35 affairs of the Hudsons Bay Company was held bya special committee of the House of Commons. Atthat investigation, Sir George Simpson, who was ex-amined, presented a map of the territory in question,and, speaking for the Company, said: There is amargin of coast, marked yellow on the map, from54° 40 up to Cross Sound, which we have rentedfrom the Russian Company. (See Map No. 14.)This map shows that the strip of land on the con-tinent extended far enough inland to include allthe sinuosities of the coast so as to exclude, ac-cording to the United States claims, the Britishterritory altogether from any outlet upon salt waterabove fifty-four degrees forty minutes. Also on a Russian Imperial map published in1861 (see Map No. 15), the Russian Governmentagain claimed, without calling forth any protest fromthe British Government, for its American possessionsan eastern frontier identical with that it had
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