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circulation, that it is one’s plain duty to point out
palpable errors. Nordenskjöld is not very familiar with the
literature relating to this subject. He does not know
Berch’s, Stuckenberg’s, or Sokoloff’s works.
Middendorff’s and Von Baer’s clever treatises he uses only
incidentally. He has restricted himself to making extracts
from Wrangell’s account, which in many respects is more
than incomplete, and does not put these expeditions in
the right light. It is now a couple of generations since
Wrangell’s work was written, which is more a general
survey than an historical presentation. While
Nordenskjöld devotes page after page to an Othere’s, an Ivanoff’s,
and a Martinier’s very indifferent or wholly imaginary
voyages around northern Norway, he disposes of the Great
Northern Expedition, without whose labors the voyage
of the Vega would have been utterly impossible, in five
unhappily written pages. One seeks in vain in his work
for the principal object of the Northern Expedition,—
for the leading idea that made these magnificent
enterprises an organic whole, or for a full and just recognition
of these able, and, in some respects, unfortunate men,
whose labors have so long remained without due
appreciation. In spite of Middendorff’s interesting account of
the cartography of the Taimyr peninsula, Nordenskjöld
does not make the slightest attempt to explain whether
his corrections of the cartography of this region are
corrections of the work of Laptjef and Chelyuskin, or of
the misrepresentations of their work made by a later age.
About the charting of Cape Chelyuskin he says:
“This was done by Chelyuskin in 1742 on a new sledging
expedition, the details of which are but little known;
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