Bering's first expedition". 5 



Danish literature contains nothing of moment concern- 

 ing him^ for the two treatises which several generations 

 ago were published by M. Hallager and Odin Wolff, are 

 merely scanty extracts from Gr. F. Miiller's historical 

 works. In the following pages, therefore, relying not 

 only upon Eussian, but also upon West European litera- 

 ture for information, we desire to erect to him a monument 

 by giving a short account of his life and work, sketching 

 at the same time a chapter of geographical history which 

 is lacking neither in importance nor in interest. 



