Présentation de l'éditeur
San Francisco, Cal., A ngust, 1903. Alaska Packers A ssociation, San Francisco: Dear Sirs I herewith transmit the paper which I engaged to write npon 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, preceding the date of the Convention of 1825; 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, 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 tmderstand that the French draft only was signed; certainly French was the diplomatic language 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. I have criticised the misquotations of the Canadian authorities in several cases: and have referred to the British Columbia map of 1895 wherein the great mountains north of Lynn Canal are washed out ;and have shown the progress of Canadian contention since 1885 7their maps and written opinions.
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