SHIP ROCK 



3 2I 



viously specimens of the rocks had been brought back 

 and reported on by Dr. George P. Merrill. 1 



SHIP OR SAIL ROCK. 



The first land recorded in the vicinity of the present 

 site of Bogoslof was a huge rock seen by Krenitzin and 

 Levashef in 1768 or 1769 nearly 30 years be- 

 fore the upheaval of the old volcano. It is shown .**-** 

 on their map of 1780 in the form of a small pro- FIG - 33< 

 file outline surrounded by four or five crosses indicating 

 outlying rocks (fig. 33). 3 The next record is that of Cap- 

 tain Cook, who on October 29, 

 1778, "discovered an elevated 

 rock like a tower " near the same 

 place. He says: "We must 

 have passed very near it in the 

 night. We could judge of its 

 steepness from this circum- 

 stance, that the sea, which now 

 run very high, broke nowhere 

 but against it." 3 This rock is 

 shown but not named on Cook's 

 chart. It was afterward called 

 Ship or Sail Rock, and the 



name was attributed to Cook, no. 34. KRUSENSTERN'S CHART 

 but I have failed to find it in his OF BOGOSLOF AND SHIP ROCK, PUB- 



LISHED IN IO2O. (REDUCED AND 



narrative. RELETTERED.) 



'Science, IV, p. 524, Dec. 12, 1884 (brief announcement). Proc. U. S. Na- 

 tional Museum, VTII, pp. 31-33, April, 1885. Reprinted in 'Cruise of the Cor- 

 win ' for 1884, pp. 45-46, 1889. 



* Ship Rock as shown on Krenitzin and Levashef's map in 1880. Published 

 by William Coxe in his ' Account of the Russian Discoveries between Asia and 

 America.' London, 3d ed., 1787 [ist ed. 1780]. The sketch of the rock was re- 

 produced (natural size) by Dall in Science, Vol. Ill, p. 90, Jan. 25, 1884; and 

 (greatly enlarged) by Davidson, Ibid., Ill, p. 283, March 7, 1884. 



'Voyages into the South Sea, Vol. VII (Cook's Third Voyage), p. 527, 1784. 

 In a footnote Cook states that " though this rock had no place in the Russian 

 map produced by Ismyloff, it has a place in the chart of Krenitzin's and Leva- 

 sheff's Voyage " above referred to. 



