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Siberia, in which the Chukchee peninsula assumed a
double horned shape, or—as Von Baer expresses it—resembled
a bull’s horn.
He used Bering’s chart as a foundation when he had
no other, but he omitted Cape Chukotskoi, and on the
66th parallel he inserted Serdze Kamen. From this point
he made the coast recede, first westward, then northward
and eastward to a large circular peninsula situated
between 72°-75° north latitude, which he called
Chukotskoi Noss. It is this imaginary peninsula which Pavlutski
crosses. He accordingly reaches the Pacific coast to the
north of Bering Strait, and in this way Müller succeeds
in locating Serdze Kamen north of the strait. Hence,
according to Müller’s opinion, Bering had never doubled
the northeastern corner of Asia, and he had never been
out of the Pacific. “And although the coast beyond
Serdze Kamen,” he says, “turns westward, it forms only
a large bay, and the coast-line again takes a northerly
direction to Chukotskoi Noss, a large peninsula in a
latitude of 70° or more, and where it would first be possible
to say authoritatively that the two hemispheres were not
connected. But how could all this have been known on
the ship? The correct idea of the shape of the land of
the Chukchees and the peninsula bearing the same name,
is due to geographical investigations instituted by me at
Yakutsk in 1736 and 1737.”
Blinded by the archival dust of Yakutsk, Müller
confused everything. Cape Chukotskoi, which Bering had
found to be in latitude 64° 18′ N., was placed beyond 72°
N.; Bering’s most northerly point, which lay far out in
the sea, was changed to a headland in latitude 66° N.,
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