The Alaska frontier . 41, andat the bottom, United States after Cession of Rus-sian-America, April 1867, Coloured Blue. On thissketch map the territory purchased by the UnitedStates is marked, Formerly Russian America, and,like the rest of the United States, it is colored the boundary of the new territory of Alaskais given as upon the other three maps of this Atlas,Nos. 2, 3 and 39, already cited, according to Bruesmap of 1825, Krusensterns map of 1827, and theCanadian and the English maps already referredto, and in accordance with the territorial claim thatRussia and the United State


The Alaska frontier . 41, andat the bottom, United States after Cession of Rus-sian-America, April 1867, Coloured Blue. On thissketch map the territory purchased by the UnitedStates is marked, Formerly Russian America, and,like the rest of the United States, it is colored the boundary of the new territory of Alaskais given as upon the other three maps of this Atlas,Nos. 2, 3 and 39, already cited, according to Bruesmap of 1825, Krusensterns map of 1827, and theCanadian and the English maps already referredto, and in accordance with the territorial claim thatRussia and the United States have always maintainedand acted upon. Many other maps can be mentioned in addition tothose above quoted against Britains recent examples, Petermanns map in the Mittheilungenof April, 1869; Hermann Berghauss Chart of theWorld on Mercators Projection, 1871^^ (see MapNo. 18); Alexander Keith Johnstons map of NorthAmerica in his Handy Royal Atlas of Modern ^ *^ Published by Justus Perthes, Gotha. sy \y MTT?^?^. Hermann Berghauss Chart of the World, 1S71. MAP No. 18. IMPORTANT MAPS. 79 Geography published at Edinburgh and London, in1881 ; E. Andriveau-Goujons map of TAmeriquedu Nord, published at Paris in 1887, and finally thewall map (1897) o^ ^^ United States by EdwardStanford,^^ an important map maker of London to-day, give to Alaska the limits always claimed since1825 by Russia and the United States.*^ **77/(? United States: London ; published by Edward Stanford,26 and 27 Cockspur St., Charing Cross, S. W., 15th July, 1897. *The following maps support the United States claim to anunbroken lisiere : America : A new General Atlas, Edinburgh, printed by JohnStark, 1830. Nord-Ameyica, verlag von L. Pabst, Darmstadt, ante 1846. America, Verlag des Geographischen Instituts, Weimar, 1853. Nord-Amerika, politische Ubersicht von E. von Sydow, Justus \/Perthes, Gotha, 1856. Nord-America, Berlin bei Dietrich Reimer, i860. y^ AUgemeine Welt Karte in Mercators Projection von Herm


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