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1728, fréquentées à présent par les Russes, qui en apportent de très
belles fourrures.


12. The Academy’s map, 1737.—Müller’s map, 1758.

13. See A. Th. v. Middendorf: Reise in den Aeussersten Norden
und Osten Sibiriens.
, IV., 56.

Concerning Bering’s determinations of longitude and latitude, O.
Peschel says: Auf der ganzen Erde gibt es vielleicht keine
wichtigere Ortsbestimmung, als die von Petropaulovski, insofern von ihr
die mathematischen Längen in der Beringsstrasse abhängen, welche
die Erdveste in zwei grosse Inseln trennt. Mit lebhafter Freude
gewahrt man, dass schon der Entdecker Bering auf seiner ersten
Fahrt trotz der Unvollkommenheit seiner Instrumente die Längen
von Okhotsk, die Südspitze Kamchatkas und die Ostspitze Asiens,
bis auf Bruchtheile eines Grades richtig bestimmte.
”—Geschichte
der Erdkunde
, pp. 655-56.

A list of Bering’s determinations is found in Harris’s Collection
of Voyages, II., 1021, London, 1748.

About the middle of the eighteenth century there was a violent
attack on Bering’s determinations. Samuel Engel, Vaugondie, and
Bushing tried to show that according to these Asia had been put too
far east. S. Engel: Remarques sur la partie de la relation du
voyage du Capt. Cook qui concerne le détroit entre l’Asie et l’Amérique.

Berne, 1781.—M. D. Vaugondie: Mémoire sur les pays de l’Asie,
etc., Paris, 1774.—Bushing’s Magazine, VIII., IX.

14. Cook and King: Voyage to the Pacific Ocean, III., 473: “In
justice to the memory of Bering, I must say that he has delineated
the coast very well, and fixed the latitude and longitude of the
points better than could be expected from the methods he had to go
by. This judgment is not formed from Mr. Müller’s account of the
voyage or the chart prefixed to his book, but from Dr. Campbell’s
account of it in his edition of Harris’s Collection and a map thereto
annexed, which is both more circumstantial and accurate than that
of Mr. Müller.” The chart which Cook refers to is a copy of
Bering’s own chart as given by D’Anville.

Concerning East Cape, Cook says: “I must conclude, as Bering
did before me, that this is the most eastern point of Asia.” p. 470.

15. See Steller’s various works, especially the introduction to the
one on Kamchatka, where it is stated that Bering returned “ohne

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