ary as given upon Krusenstern's Imperial map. (See Map No. 9.) Duflot de Mofras, who was an attaché of the French Legation to Mexico, gives upon his map of the western coast of America, published in 1844, the same frontier line between the two empires.16 (See Map No. 10.) Again in a "Narrative of a Journey Round the World, during the years 1841 and 1842, by Sir George Simpson, Governor-in-chief of the Hudson's Bay Company's Territories in North America" published at London in 1847," a map in volume one, showing the author's route, gives the line of demarcation between the Russian and the English territories as it was laid down by Krusenstern in his map of 1827. (See map No. 11.) Likewise on the map prepared by Captain Tebenkoff of the Imperial Russian Navy, which was published in 1849 (see Map No. 12), and on an English map to accompany S. S. Hill's Travels in Siberia, published at London in 1854 (see Map No. 13), the frontier of the Alaskan lisière is given as Krusenstern and Piadischeff drew it. Three years later, in 1857, an investigation into the 16 The title of de Mofras's map is: Carte de la côte de l'Amérique sur l'océan Pacifique septentrional * * * dressé par Mr Duflot de Mofras, Attaché à la Légation de France à Mexico pour servir à l'intelligence de son Voyage d'exploration, publié par ordre du Roi *** Paris, 1844. "London; Henry Colburn, 1847: there is a copy in the British Museum. |