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wholly, or at least to a great extent, unsuccessful. In 

 the literature of that day there are evidences of this, 

 especially in Steller^s writings. He treats Bering with 

 scornful superiority, which is particularly out of place, 

 as he shows himself a poor judge in geographical mat- 

 ters.* Kiriloff, who in his general map of Eussia in 

 1734f unreservedly accepted Bering's map, was the only 

 man who gave him due recognition. The Academy could 

 not persuade itself to make use of the only scientifically 

 obtained outline map in existence of the remotest regions 

 of the empire, until Bering, many years afterwards, had 

 won full recognition in Paris, Nuremberg, and London. 

 Bering's map was made in Moscow in 1731, and the Eus- 

 sian government presented it to the king of Poland,]; 

 who gave it to the Jesuit father Du Halde. He had it 

 printed and inserted in D'Anville's Nouvelle Atlas de la 

 Chine, a supplement to his large work on China, to which 

 we have several times referred. § Of this work Dr. Camp- 

 bell later gave an account in Harris's Collection of Voy- 

 ages, and it was, furthermore, the basis of the better 

 class of geographical works on eastern Asia of last cen- 

 tury until Captain Cook's day. A copy of the eastern 

 half of the map will be found in the appendix to this 

 treatise. 



* Note 35. t Note 36. t Note 37. § Note 38. 



