21 DISCOVERIES ABOUT BERING SEA. 



inland was named St. George. In the follow- 

 ing- year the island of St. Paul was discovered. 

 Cooic'.sexpcdi. Meanwhile, in the year 1778, the English nav- 



tion to liei'iug Sea. 



igator, Captain Cook, had appeared in Alaskan 

 waters, in cooperation with an expedition sent by 

 the British admiralty to Baffin Bay in the hope 

 that a northern passage might be discovered from 

 the Pacific to the Atlantic.^ After visiting cer- 

 tain points on the Pacific coast of Alaska, he 

 passed into Bering Sea and sailed along the east- 

 ern shore as far as Bering Strait, giving names 

 to various places, among which are those of 

 Bristol Bay and Norton Sound. At several 

 points on the coast which he visited he found 

 clear evidence of Russian influence and customs, 

 and he confirmed in the strongest manner the 

 early Russian discoveries. His visit was never 

 followed up by settlement, and it resulted in no 

 acquisition of territory or clahn thereto by his 

 Government.^ 

 Subsequent Rus- In 1 7 9 1 au ex])edition, planned by Catherine II, 



sum expeditions. i ^ ± j 



passed from the Aleutian Islands to the northern 

 parts of Bering Sea, including St. Lawrence 



1 Blimey, pp. 219, 220. 



2 Ou the contrary, it inured largely to the benefit of the Rus- 

 Bians, of wliom Cook, in bis third volume, at page 373, predicts 

 that ''they will niidonbtcdly make a proper use of the advan- 

 tages we have opened to them by the discovery of Cook's River 

 (Inlet)." See, also, Coxe, p. 20G. 



