The Alaska frontier . ca orAlaska — which latter name, meaning in the localtongue Great Land, Secretary Seward gave tothe purchased territory after it had come into thepossession of the United States—was drawn so asto include within the bounds of Alaska all the sin-uosities that cut into the mainland between fifty-four degrees forty minutes north and Mount SaintElias. The frontier line as thus laid down fol-lowed the eastern boundary of Alaska as Krusen-stern (1827) and Piadischeff (1829) and Bouchette(1831) and Arrowsmith (1834) had drawn it on tlieirmaps; and to the frontier as thus marked t
The Alaska frontier . ca orAlaska — which latter name, meaning in the localtongue Great Land, Secretary Seward gave tothe purchased territory after it had come into thepossession of the United States—was drawn so asto include within the bounds of Alaska all the sin-uosities that cut into the mainland between fifty-four degrees forty minutes north and Mount SaintElias. The frontier line as thus laid down fol-lowed the eastern boundary of Alaska as Krusen-stern (1827) and Piadischeff (1829) and Bouchette(1831) and Arrowsmith (1834) had drawn it on tlieirmaps; and to the frontier as thus marked the EnglishGovernment made no protest. General Banks, chair-man of the Committee on Foreign Affairs in theHouse so understood it.*^ The British Governmentmade no protest to the territorial claims asserted in ** Speech of Hon. Natha?iiel P. Banks of Massachusetts, de-livered in the House of Rep7-esentatives, fune jo, 1868. F. & and Geo. A. Bailey, Reporters and Printers of the Debatesof Congress, page
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