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of water below the keel. There was a heavy fog, no wind,
and a swift current, but they succeeded in shifting about
and getting out into eighteen fathoms of water, where
they anchored to await daybreak. In the morning, at
eight o’clock, a small island was seen at a distance of four
miles. It was three miles long, with an east to west
trend. A long reef extended out into the sea from the
eastern point, seen by them in a direction E. S. E. by E.
In the evening they weighed anchor, having a heavy fog,
and on the next morning, the island was seen at a
distance of seven geographical miles toward the south. Its
latitude was calculated as 55° 32′, but as all of Bering’s
determinations of latitude on his return voyage from
America show an error of from 30′ to 45′ less than the
true latitude, it must be concluded that the island was
in latitude 56° and some minutes. He called the island
St. Stephen from the calendar day, but his crew or
lieutenants must have called it Foggy Island (Tumannoi),
as even Krasilnikoff’s manuscript map, in the possession
of the Admiralty, has this name. Later the cartography
of this region became considerably confused. The name
St. Stephen disappeared. Cook called another island Fog
Island, while it became customary to consider the island
discovered by Bering as identical with Ukamok
(Chirikoff Island, Vancouver’s Island), where the Russians had
a colony, and thus the island itself was finally lost to
geography. Notwithstanding the fact that Admiral
Krusenstern, in a clever essay, has given an able
review of the literature pertaining to this question,
and has shown that where Bering saw St. Stephen,
Cook, Sarycheff, and Vancouver likewise saw an island,
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