Faden’s map” shows a well delined, continuous crest of mountains which, from the south passes a short distinee to the northeast of the head of Portland Canal, and continues generally parallel with the coast, turning around the head of Lynn Canal dnd nearly uniting with another range of which Mount Fairweather and Mount St. Elias are parts. Between this rage of mountains and the coust of the lnys nnd inlets all along, other mountains are shown much nearer the coast, and in some pleces almost reaching it, but they do not form any ringe whatever trending generally parallel with the coast, but are depicted either as short mountain formations trending toward the cOust, OF fs spurs,
If the negotiators saw this imap they were impressed with the idea that, there was a generally continuous, and homogeneous range of mountains, forming one system, extending from near the head of Portland Canal all the way up to Mount St. Elias. They were also impressed with the faet that between this range and the const, there were other mountains, very much nearer the coust, which constituted no part of the crest of this ranve of monntains. and which, if they belonved to the svstem at all. were foothills. or offshoots of it, with a weneral formation nearly at right anvles fo the trend of the crest.
If they exanined the Russinn map of L828" they would have been impressed in the same way as by Faden’s map, with the difference that the slopex of the monntainms. the crest of which extends from Portland Canal around Lynn Canal. parallel with the general trend of the coast of the interior waters, vllowing exceptions for some short arms which make ont almost at right angles from such coast. reach down to the very shore itself. and do not present separate or short monntiins, either independent of, or running at right angles to the range, as shown on Faden’s map,
If they consulted Arrowsmith’s map of LS1s° they got an impression of a crest of a homovenons range, just like thit given in the other two maps, and, at places, wonld have been impressed with the faet that, there were lateral, or independent mountains. between this general Tinge and some portions of the coast.
If they consulted Arrowsmith’s map of 1822,” they were not im-
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