VANCOUVER ISLAND Sierra Nevada B Fraser's River Destruction. TLALAMS M Olympus C. Shabbate C.Disappomen F CLookous C.Foulweather Perpet CHICKEELES Chickeeles Bingham Bax Taxpum R Zasatish R. JACION CHINOOKS Profile of the travelling route from the South Pass of the Rocky Mountains to the Bay o Helen's F'Vancouver math R MOLE John Days R FWahlah Wahlah Mission NEŻ PERCES OR SAPTIN Pierce Hole Grand Rond Salmon R Burnt R River R Payette R Bitter Root R S Dearborn Ba tile Rock OREGON MAP OF LOJAT AND UPPER CALIFORNIA From the Surveys of JOHN CHARLES FREMONT And other Authorities DRAWN BY CHARLES PREUSS Under the Order of the SENATE OF THE Scale 1:3,000000 Explanations FR. 1842 or 1846. means Fremont's Exploring route in 1842 &c &c of the sea. S. before a feminine name, signifies Santa, as Santa Barbara. 3. before a masculine name signifies San, as San Luis Rev. 1Saint Luis the king.) P. before masculine names (on the coast, signifies Punto, or Ponto, according to the gender of the name, as Punto Gordo, (Big Point;) or Punta Conception (Point Conception.) Y. before the names of islands, stands for Isla island), as "Ysia de Santu Catalina, or Ysla de San Clemente; Santa, or San according to the gender Lith by E. Weber & Co. Balto. Photo-Litho. Whiteman & Bass. London. American Falls Fre Hi A HISTORY OF THE SAN JUAN WATER BOUNDARY QUESTION, AS AFFECTING THE DIVISION OF TERRITORY BETWEEN GREAT BRITAIN AND THE UNITED STATES. BY VISCOUNT MILTON, M.P. COLLECTED AND COMPILED FROM OFFICIAL PAPERS AND DOCUMENTS AND OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, AND FROM OTHER SOURCES. With Two Maps. LONDON: CASSELL, PETTER, AND GALPIN; AND 596, BROADWAY, NEW YORK. 1869. PREFACE. I NEED offer no apology for laying this statement before the Public, as I feel that upon an examination of the same, the importance of a question hitherto carefully veiled, will become apparent. It is, however, necessary to apologise for the haste with which I have been obliged to put my materials together. I have been desirous of laying before the Public some account of this question, preparatory to the discussion which must, at some period, and which will probably at once, ensue. This history has been compiled mainly from documents published under the authority of the United States Senate; consisting of some of the letters, despatches, &c., which have passed between the Governments of Great Britain and the United States, and also of some of the communications between those Governments and their respective officers, naval and military, and between other persons more or less concerned in the conduct of affairs on the British-American Pacific coast. I was at first doubtful whether I would not throw into the form of an Appendix the correspondence between the Commissioners respectively of Great Britain and of the United States, and between Lord Russell and Mr. Cass; but on further consideration, I felt that by so doing I should destroy the continuity of the story, and cast into the shade some of the most important of the papers bearing upon the question. MILTON. |