High Seas
the open sea or ocean.
The claims of various nations to exclusive rights and superiority over extensive The claims of various nations to exclunever go to college there has been ob- servable a tendency to broaden out the HILARION tracts of the ocean highway have been settled after much controversy by a general international law. The principle now accepted is that the jurisdiction of maritime states extends only for 3 miles, or within former cannon range of their own coasts; the remainder of the seas being high seas, accessible on equal terms to all nations. Inland seas and estuaries, of course, are excepted. HILARION (hi-lā'ri-on), reputed to be the founder of the monastic system in Palestine; born in Tabatha, near Gaza, Palestine, about 290. He was educated at Alexandria, and converted to the monastic system by St. Anthony.
He then lived as a hermit in the desert between Gaza and Egypt for many years, and finally died in Cyprus in 372. His memory is celebrated Oct. 21.