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being separated by the Strait of Anian[1] (Fretum Anian).
On a map by Joducus Hondius, who died in 1611, East
Siberia is drawn as a parallelogram projecting toward the
northeast, and directly opposite and quite near the
northeast corner of this figure a country is represented with the
same superscription. This is found again in the map by
Gerhard Mercator which accompanies Nicolai Witsen’s
“Noord en Ost Tartarye,” 1705, and in several other
sixteenth century atlases. It is quite impossible to
determine how much of this apparent knowledge is due to
vague reports combined with happy guessing, and how
much to a practical desire for such a passage on the part
of European navigators, whose expensive polar expeditions
otherwise would be folly. This much is certain, however:
Witsen and other leading geographers based their views
on information received from Siberia and Russia.[2]
In the history of discoveries the spirit of human
enterprise has fought its way through an incalculable number
of mirages. These have aroused the imagination, caused
agitations, debates, and discussions, but have usually
veiled an earlier period’s knowledge of the question.
There are many re-discovered countries on our globe. So
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