The Alaska frontier . ^ A SS^pA ^ j^. t> V Map published by the State Department of the United States, 1867. MAP No. 17. 76 THE ALASKA FRONTIER. Sumners speech itself or to their exempHfication onthe map of the State Department. Besides, by subsequent acts and maps, the BritishGovernment confirmed the United States Govern-ment in its behef that it had bought from Russia,along with the rest of Alaska, a tongue of territorythat, extending from Mount Saint Elias to the Port-land Channel, passed around all the sinuosities ofthe coast and sufficiently far inland to altogetherexclude Canadian ter
The Alaska frontier . ^ A SS^pA ^ j^. t> V Map published by the State Department of the United States, 1867. MAP No. 17. 76 THE ALASKA FRONTIER. Sumners speech itself or to their exempHfication onthe map of the State Department. Besides, by subsequent acts and maps, the BritishGovernment confirmed the United States Govern-ment in its behef that it had bought from Russia,along with the rest of Alaska, a tongue of territorythat, extending from Mount Saint Elias to the Port-land Channel, passed around all the sinuosities ofthe coast and sufficiently far inland to altogetherexclude Canadian territory from touching tide wateron the Pacific coast at any point above fifty-fourdegrees forty minutes north latitude. A notable instance of what English cartographersthought was the area of Alaska was given in 1867,at about the time of the sale by Russia to the UnitedStates of Russian America. In that year BlacksV General Atlas of the World was published at Edin-burgh. In the introduction of this work, the fol-lowing
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