Ile provides that the line,
remontera, an nom, par la passe lite le Portland Channel, jnsqu'd ve qvelle tonche Ala efite de ta terre ferme sities an 56° deeet de latitiute nerd.e
Tt ix to vo north until it rerches the coast of the continent.
Portlind Channel appeared on the mips the negotiators Tad, to be much narrower. as it is in fact. than either Taku Inlet or Lyn Canal.
Mr. Canning denominated the border of the head of Portland Channel as “la edte de ia terre ferme située au oi- deeré de latitude nord,”
Th the English counterpart he said: Shall aseend northerly along the channel culled Portland Channel till it strikes the coast of the continent wing tn the ath degree of north latitude.”
The border of the extreme interior part of Portland Channel was, in this Draft Convention, which he niide after the negotiations had heen pending for more than a yeu and which Ind @rown parthy out of x cl imof Russia to own the entive northwest coast of Americs throughout its whole extent. expressly declared to he *"voast of the continent,” and vet this tribunal is asked to decide that. under the same treaty. the sume word “coast” ix not applicable tu: the borders of other much wider interioy waters, aud that. upon nm mere tech- nical and judicial miernine attributed te the word ‘tvoast” hy nations For jurisdictional prrposes, the sinuous coast contemplated by the treaty was what is cenerally understood as a political coast line, drawn from headland to headland,
Article two proceeds:
De ce point elle smyra cette ette panillélement a ses <innorit'es, et sous on dais la base yers In mer dee mientagnes (ai la hardent, jusqu'au Tite dlegn de longitude ouest due dit: meéricien.
Tt wis to follow “along that coast” and -* parallel to its windings.” ¢
This did not menn thet the Tine was to vo straight away from “thet point” southwardly vlony the coust of Porthind Cunal Such a construction would be wholly tnveasoniile, It would he like marching ap the bill and then down again, The line tad pro- ceeded np Porthind Canal te this coust on Portland Canal, and it would do violenee to common sense to suppose that le intended
F.C. App. 155.
