The Alaska Boundary Classic Reprint PDF Download

Excerpt from The Alaska Boundary It looks very long, but I wished to sustain every statement by an appeal to charts, maps, official documents, special papers, pro and con, and whatever would add authority to the investigation. I have named the authorities, and in critical points have used the original French text of the letters and documents that passed between the Plenipotentiaries of Russia and Great Britain, pre ceding the date Of the Convention of 1825; and which, in part, were used in the Fur Seal Arbitration of 1892. As I believe great weight will be given to a strict construction of the French texts of the Convention of 1825, and the Treaty of 1867, I have introduced each document with the French and English texts in parallel columns; and have freely criticised the weak and unequivalent English translation. I understand that the French draft only was Signed; certainly French was the diplomatic langt ge Of the earlier period. I have given some space to the inside or secret history Of the Negotiations of 1825. The boundary incident Of the Convention was confessedly a struggle between the two great fur companies, Russian and British. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.