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Show History or ItrrhigSca. ThoHeaot Kannhntca was tlltcov tred In the year lt.'oliy Vitus llerlng, a ltllsalsti suljrrt, sailing under the llusslaii tUg. From the date o( that dlsi-overy until the nrchare ot Alatkn In lr,7, Hiuilu held undisputed may iverlhat tea, whose name bad lien chaiMad to llerlng lu honor of Its discoverer. dis-coverer. In 174, lbs Aleullsn Islands wrro dlsiolired, nnd III 1708, Hie lulerestol the Hurtlane becolnllig more fully awakened, tho tea. Us Islands and coast wereexi.lurej ty order of (Jueeu Catherine of Itussls. lu 170H the 1'rliiylov Islands wern found. They evere derolnta and iiiiln-habltcal, iiiiln-habltcal, but the KOlcinme-ul, finding the in to be tho gleat Bsreinjily ground of the (ur teats, Irsurferred Aleuts from their Hatha irlaude. Aflcr a time they became contented nnd settled set-tled on Ihu fog-dlmined I'rlbylovs, aflerwnrds nothing coul I Induce them to lorsaka tlulr a lopted home. Having found oiler, leal and other a-ahinble animals wlihlu Ilia Ilmlttol Its territory, Itustlan proteitlou was extended, and early as thu jear 1701 Ihu right to trade with the Islands was grauted to merchants by Hutrla, tho govirmneut olwuit rrqulriug n ur. ixntaga ot the gains, l'rom 17Jo to 1607, a jatrlod of one hundred aud forty-two )ears,Iluiltu mouarcba hild as absolute sway uver Hiring Heu as over any other art ot their domain. If Individual or craiany desired to trade wlthlu lu touudara the it mill, ston camu from the ( zar, with rules uud all illations to which they were corolleal to adhere, Inlhatrtaty of cession, tha wtirtorn limit ol ltuislaii America, or Alaska, is slllvil stand as Hie eastern limit, vU.i "Ihowiaieni Unlit within whlili the territories aul dominions con-Veaidnto con-Veaidnto contalne I passes IhruUgli a 1 olut lu Hiring Heaon Iho purallelof cl degrees M mlnutts north Ulliudt., at Its Intern ctlou oy the meridian which runes nildaae botweeu tbo Itluuds of Kruteiiiteru or Ingalock, and the Irbilid or Italmaiioll, or Nooruarbook, and proceeds due north without limitation Into the tamo fruaeuYievi. "The tame errstern limit, beginning begin-ning at the rams Initial lolut. proceetls thence la a course nearly southwtit, through llerlng Strait and lining Boa tons lo, ' midway I,,-. twien the iioithwist point of the Island of Bt. hawreucu and Uterolith. s-ttat IKInt ufC.iB ChoukitilJ, to tho meridian of 17C wettlollglllldc;tlienie from lha Intinectlou of that meridian luu aoullitiii.lt rly direction, so as to I ass midway laitw ecu the Itlaud of the Attou and the Cooler Island of the Kormaudorsky r uplil or group lu the. North raollln ocean, lo tha meridian of lDtdegrtes west longitude, so aa to Include lu Ibo lartlloiv enuvnved. Urn whole of Ilia Aleutian Island eatt of theuiellllau." Thus It will lei seen that llerlug Sea la rrrci'iilreu aaapart of Ibe Territory tllelded lietweeu Hllrtla aud the l'i IteilHIater No other ooulilry has i lallned Islands or other lioserMlous ailhili Itsllmils audits ttilogrsphy makes II lniH.le that II -lioillj kr lalmesl asriu "f u iilghwn. Hrrlng HI rait Is n i'asiee Ulween Mil sua an l Maska, aiidleiilul thai lallis An III Ocean and untxplond region, ll Is tbareftire radically an Inland rasaui Jeft lo liiti ilomlnliii of the nations iMirdetliig uihhi Its wains. And lure ilis- qiia-tiun striken one rather forcible, Ifthe United rdalca side of the tta Is iria foraging ground, why Is not the llumtan lantiotl laiuslly tree? U the sen was Itilsrla's to give, then lha pur I Ion -old Is as truly the pruparly of the i uri hi r as H was her own r.revl-nurti r.revl-nurti Hie lieg. tlallni . If the AUrka-title AUrka-title w aa not legally herr, neither Is the remainder and therefore post hers have the rAiiia right In all jnr, they are nu liilict r iai her, and ate amenable to no law for Inking public property, hut Itu'ria is real to ndett her rights, ami no nation lias the temerity to dispute dis-pute 'lit in. lha Unlleal Htates has iren sn sure of u Just appreciation nf her ilaimslliBt she has mada nn provision pro-vision ti r their Itililiuiement.. tx. |
