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passed into the cartography of the future. In latitude
67° 3′ N., Cook found a projecting promontory with
many crags and peaks, and “possibly one or another of
them may he heart-shaped. This peak we have, on
Müller’s authority, called Serdze Kamen.”[1]
Here then we have the third Serdze Kamen, and we
can now see how it has wandered about the northeast
corner of Asia. As a matter of fact, it is situated in a
latitude nearly the same as the most northerly point
reached by Bering, but unfortunately this does not at all
answer Müller’s description. It does not project
eastward into the sea, but on the contrary, its main direction
is toward the northwest. At the base of this headland,
the coast does not in a striking manner extend toward
the west, but continues in its former direction. Nor does
it consist of steep rocks and a low point extending
farther than the eye can reach. In other words, the present
Serdze Kamen has nothing whatever to do either with
Bering’s voyage or Müller’s description.[2]
To this period of Bering’s history another observation
must be made. In his excellent treatise entitled, “What
Geography owes to Peter the Great,” Von Baer tries to
show that Bering turned back in his course, not on the
15th, but on the 16th of August, and that too,
notwithstanding the fact that both Bering and Müller, in print,
give the former date,—yes, notwithstanding the fact that
Von Baer himself had an autograph card from Bering
which likewise gives the 15th. In his criticism on this
point, Von Baer based his statements on those extracts of
the ship’s journal referred to above, which as we have
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