204 VITUS BERING. 



1728, frequentees a present par las Busses, qui en apporteni de ires 

 belles fourru7'es." 



12. The Academy's map, 1737.— Mliller's map, 1758. 



13. See A. Th. v. Middendorff : Heise in den Aeussersten Norden 

 und Osten Sibiriens., IV., 56. 



Concerning Bering's determinations of longitude and latitude, 0. 

 Peschel says : Auf der ganzen Erde gibt es vielleicht keine wich- 

 tigere Ortsbestimrming , als die von Petropaulovshi, insofern von ihr 

 die mathematischen Ldngen in der Beringsstrasse abhdngen, ivelche 

 die Erdveste in zwei grosse Inseln trennt. Mit leb/i after Freude 

 geivahrt man, dass scho7i der Entdecker Beri7ig auf seiner ersten 

 Fahrt trotz der JJnvoUkomme^ilieit seiner Listrumente die Ldngen 

 V071 Okhotsk, die Sudspitze Kamcliatkas und die Ostspitze Asiens, 

 bis auf BrucTitheile eines Grades ricMig bestimmte.'" — Oeschichte 

 der Erdkunde, pp. 655-56. 



A list of Bering's determinations is found in Harris's Collection 

 of Voyages, II., 1021, London, 1748. 



About the middle of the eighteenth century there was a violent 

 attack on Bering's determinations. Samuel Engel, Vaugondie, and 

 Bushing tried to show that according to these Asia had been put too 

 far east. S, Engel: Remarques sur la ptcirtie de la relation du voy- 

 age du Cajit, Cook qui concerrie le detroit entre VAsie et VAmerique. 

 Berne, 1781. — M. D. Vaugondie: Memoire sur les pays de VAsie, 

 etc., Paris, 1774.— Bushing's Magazine, VIII., IX. 



14. Cook and King: Voyage to the Pacific Ocean, III., 473: "In 

 justice to the memory of Bering, I must say that he has delineated 

 the coast very well, and fixed the latitude and longitude of the 

 points better than could be expected from the methods he had to go 

 by. This judgment is not formed from Mr. Midler's account of the 

 voyage or the chart prefixed to his book, but from Dr. Campbell's 

 account of it in his edition of Harris's Collection and a map thereto 

 annexed, which is both more circumstantial and accurate than that 

 of Mr. Miiller." The chart which Cook refers to is a copy of 

 Bering's own chart as given by D'Anville. 



Concerning East Cape, Cook says: "I must conclude, as Bering 

 did before me, that this is the most eastern point of Asia." p. 470. 



15. See Steller's various works, especially the introduction to the 

 one on Kamchatka, where it is stated that Bering returned *' oTine 



