46 VITUS BERII^G. 



the heart-cliff. It is quite improbable that they got this 

 name from the Cossacks in Anadyrsk, and hence we here 

 undoubtedly have the origin of the name.* 



In Steller's various works one can see what confused 

 ideas concerning Bering's first expedition the academists 

 who wrote his history really had. They succeeded in 

 bringing confusion into the simplest questions, and, as a 

 result, wrecked his reputation. In Steller's description of 

 Kamchatka, where he enumerates the headlands of the 

 peninsula, a remarkable statement is found, which offers 

 excellent proof of the correctness of Liitke's opinion, f 

 The situation of Serdze Kamen between East Cape and 

 the mouth of the Anadyr is here distinctly given. 

 Hence, according to his opinion, Bering reached no 

 farther than to St. Kresta Bay, and the sarcastic remarks 

 plainly show Steller's partisan view. I Miiller was not so 

 rash. When he moved Cape Chukotskoi half a dozen 

 degrees farther to the north, he moved Serdze Kamen 

 also, and carried it from St. Kresta Bay up into Bering 

 Strait. 



In this cool move he was fortunate enough to get into 

 a closer agreement with Bering's determination of lati- 

 tude, but unfortunately hit upon new difficulties. His 

 own map is based upon Bering's, as he had no other, but 

 Bering's voyage did not, as is well known, end at any 

 headland. Neither his chart nor his journal supports 



*Note 27. 



tThe passage is: ''Das TschuMschische Vorgeburge in Nord Osten, (else- 

 where he locates it in latitude 66° N.), evn anderes 2 Grad ohngefaehr sUd- 

 licher, Sirza-kamen, der UerzHtein gennent, der mich hey der ersten Expedition 

 der herzlichen Courage der See-Officier die Grdnzen gesetzt. Ohmoeit demselhen 

 ist eine sehr graze Einbucht und guter Hafen, auch vor die grosesten Fahrzenge; 

 Das Anadir sJcische Vorgeburge " 



JNote 28. 



