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wholly, or at least to a great extent, unsuccessful. In
the literature of that day there are evidences of this,
especially in Steller’s writings. He treats Bering with
scornful superiority, which is particularly out of place,
as he shows himself a poor judge in geographical
matters.[1] Kiriloff, who in his general map of Russia in
1734[2] unreservedly accepted Bering’s map, was the only
man who gave him due recognition. The Academy could
not persuade itself to make use of the only scientifically
obtained outline map in existence of the remotest regions
of the empire, until Bering, many years afterwards, had
won full recognition in Paris, Nuremberg, and London.
Bering’s map was made in Moscow in 1731, and the
Russian government presented it to the king of Poland,[3]
who gave it to the Jesuit father Du Halde. He had it
printed and inserted in D’Anville’s Nouvelle Atlas de la
Chine, a supplement to his large work on China, to which
we have several times referred.[4] Of this work Dr.
Campbell later gave an account in Harris’s Collection of
Voyages, and it was, furthermore, the basis of the better
class of geographical works on eastern Asia of last
century until Captain Cook’s day. A copy of the eastern
half of the map will be found in the appendix to this
treatise.
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