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Title: The Alaska frontier
Year: 1903 (1900s)
Authors: Balch, Thomas Willing, 1866-1927
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Publisher: Philadelphia, Allen, Lane and Scott
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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er and practically unnavigable channel to thenorth of these two islands. On many maps, including Canadian and Englishmaps, the line was drawn to the south of Wales andPearse Islands. For instance, Arrowsmith, on his mapissued in 1864, marked the line south of Wales andPearse Islands. (See Map No. 16.) The Canadianson an official Government map of the Railways ofCanada, published in the year 1884, distinctly drewthe frontier through the passage of water south ofWales and Pearse Islands, and this channel ismarked on that map Portland Inlet. (See MapNo. 27.) These maps locate this part of the frontierin opposition to the British claims by the evidence oftheir own cartographers. Furthermore, the openingof Portland Channel into Dixons Entrance is shownby two official maps of the British Government.Chart number 2431 of the British Admiralty, pub-lished on the 13th of July, 1865, corrected to Feb-ruary, 1901, on which Observatory Inlet is markedaccording to Staff Commr. Penders Survey, 1868,
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British Admiralty Chart, No. 2458, published December 15TH, 1S96, and correctedTO March, 1900: prepared under the direction of Rear Admiral Wharton. MAP No. 23. ENGUSH AND CANADIAN MAPS. II7 gives the north west coast of America from PortSimpson to Cross Sound. Chart number 2458 ofthe British Admiralty, pubHshed on the 15th of De-cember, 1896, corrected to March, 1900, shows thecoast Hne about Port Simpson and the inner chan-nels opposite Prince of Wales Island. (See MapNo. 23.) On both these charts the passage ofwater south of Pearse and Wales Islands openinginto Dixons Entrance is marked Portland Inlet,and the channel to the north of Pearse and WalesIslands is marked Pearse Canal. But in addition, it is a rule of International Lawthat where a water boundary is a frontier betweentwo States, unless it is expressly otherwise pro-vided the line of demarcation between these twopowers shall pass through the deepest part of thewater area, that is through the thalweg. The wordthalweg itself

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