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the vessel ran ashore was four or five miles north of the 

 present Cape Khitroff. In WaxeFs journal the geograph- 

 ical position is entered as 55° 5' north latitude, but Fr. 

 Liitke gives it as latitude 54° 58' and longitude 193° 23' 

 west from Greenwich. On his large map of a part of 

 the Aleutian Islands, with Russian and French text, he 

 marks the place of landing at this point with these words: 

 ^' C'est pres de cet endroit que le commandeur Bering a 

 fait ncmfrage " * {i. e., in the vicinity of this place Bering 

 stranded). This place is at about the center of the 

 eastern coast of the island, which extends at least 28' 

 farther north to Cape Waxel, and hence only from a 

 local point of view, just as it must have seemed to Steller 

 as the vessel approached land, can this receding part of 

 the coast be designated as the northern side of the 

 island. The view here set forth is further corroborated 

 by many places in Steller's diary, and by other accounts 

 of the stay on the island, f 



*Map III., Appendix. 



t My view has been most strongly confirmed by the excellent Norwegian 

 naturalist, Dr. Leouhard Stejneger, of the Smithsonian Institution, Wash- 

 ington, who in the years 1882-'84 passed eighteen months on Bering Island 

 and circumnavigated it. In Deutsche Geographische Blatter, 1885, he de- 

 scribes his trip and gives a good contour map of the island, as well as 

 of Bering's stranding-place, which in honor of him is still called " Koman- 

 dor," and is situated in the place described above, on the northeastern 

 coast of the \&\&jid..—A%Uhor's Note to American Edition. 



For Dr. Stejneger's final remarks on this point the reader is referred to 

 Note 64, in the Appendix, where will be found a letter to the translator. 



