The Alaska frontier . fEngineer and Genl. Manager Canadian Governmentrailways, the frontier rims south of Pearse Island,then up the Portland Channel, and then far inland,sustaining absolutely the contention of the United Statesand overthrowing all the Canadian arguments aboutmeasuring the ten leagues inland from, the outer lineof the territorial waters. (See Map No. 27.) It is difficult to see how the Canadian governmentcan in any way evade the evidence furnished againstit by these official maps. But the British ImperialGovernment is even more sharply blocked by itsown official admissions from
The Alaska frontier . fEngineer and Genl. Manager Canadian Governmentrailways, the frontier rims south of Pearse Island,then up the Portland Channel, and then far inland,sustaining absolutely the contention of the United Statesand overthrowing all the Canadian arguments aboutmeasuring the ten leagues inland from, the outer lineof the territorial waters. (See Map No. 27.) It is difficult to see how the Canadian governmentcan in any way evade the evidence furnished againstit by these official maps. But the British ImperialGovernment is even more sharply blocked by itsown official admissions from backing up the Canadianclaims. For upon the British Admiralty Chart , giving the North-west coast of America from** Cape Corrientes, Mexico, to Kadiak Island, pre-pared in 1876 by F. J. Evans, R. N., published in1877 and corrected up to April i8g8, the frontier ofthe United States is marked from the Arctic Oceandown along the one hundred and forty-first degree oflongitude west from Greenwich, and then advancing. ( ^^^ ::-l v-O- -vNi /^ :;/j 0:..,,_, ?\] ^. 7« Zay«,J iwvilitl ??4^CB Official Canadian Map of British Columbia, No. 26.
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