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59° 18′ north latitude and 139° west longitude, but Cook
had not himself explored this bay; he had simply found
indications of a bay, and hence La Pérouse and
Vancouver, whose explorations were much more in
detail, and who at this place could find no bay, were
obliged to seek elsewhere for it. La Pérouse puts Bering
Bay 10′ farther south, at the present Alsekh River,
northwest of Mt. Fairweather, the lagoon-shaped mouth
of which he calls Rivière de Bering, and Vancouver was
of the opinion that in La Pérouse’s Bay de Monti,
Dixon’s Admiralty Bay, 59° 42′ N. lat., he had found
Bering’s place of landing. Vancouver’s opinion has
hitherto held its own. The names Bering Bay,
Admiralty Bay, or, as the Russians call it, Yakutat, are found
side by side; the latter, however, is beginning to displace
the former, and properly so, for Bering was never in or
near this bay.[1]
While this Cook cartography fixed Bering’s place of
landing too far east, the Russians committed the opposite
error. On the chart with which the Admiralty provided
Captain Billings on his great Pacific expedition, the
southern point of the Island of Montague, in Prince
William’s Sound, (the Russian name of the island is
Chukli), is given as Bering’s promontory St. Elias, and
the Admiralty gave him the right, as soon as the
expedition reached this point, to assume a higher military
rank, something which he actually did. But Admiral
Krusenstern, with his usual keenness, comes as near the
truth as it was possible without having Bering’s own
chart and the ship’s journal. He thinks that, according
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