206 VITUS BERING. 



26. Pallas: N. Nord. Beitrdge. I. Chart. — Martin Sauer : 

 An Account of Com. Billings's Geog. and Astr. Expedition. 1785- 

 94. Chart. 



27. M. Sauer: An Account, etc., p. 252, Note.— Fr. Liitke: 

 Voyage autour du monde, II., 238. Note and chart: Carte de la 

 Baie de Set. Croix. Levee par les emb. de la Corvette le Seniavine, 

 1828, where the original Serdze Kamen is found in its proper place 

 with the original Chukehee name, Linglingay. 



28. Steller: BescTireihung vo?i dem Lande Kamtschatka, p. 15. 

 Steller sways back and forth between Miiller's views and the 

 account that he himself obtained of the real state of affairs. He 

 met Miiller in West Siberia in 1739, when the latter was filled 

 with his supposed epoch-making discoveries in Yakutsk archives. 

 In Eeise nach A?nerika, p. 6, Steller says: "So verUieb es nichts 

 desto weniger auf Seiten der damals gebrauchten Officiere bey einer 

 kurzen Untersuchung des Landes Kamtschatka, von Lopatka bis zu 

 dem sogena7inten Serze Kamen, welche bey weitem das Tschuk- 

 tschiske Yorgebirge tioch nicht is^." He has so little knowledge of 

 Bering's work that he can immediately go on to say: " Owosdew ist 

 viel weiter und bis 66 Grad Norderbreite gekommen.'^ 



29. How varying the views on this subject have been even in 

 the narrowest academical circles may be seen from the following: 

 In a German edition of Atlas Russicus, 1745, Serdze Kamen 

 appears as a mountain in the center of the Chukehee peninsula. 

 (By Caique, placed at my disposal by A. Thornam, of St. Peters- 

 burg. In the French edition the name is not found at all.) On the 

 maps which accompany J. E. Fischer's Sibirische Oeschichte, 1768, 

 and Gmelin's work, Serze Kamen and Kammenoie Serdze are found, 

 but in different places of Bering Strait, both different from Miiller's. 



30. Cook and King: Voyage, etc., I., 469: "Thus far Bering 

 proceeded in 1728, that is, to this head, which Miiller says is called 

 Serdze Kamen on account of a rock upon it shaped like a heart. 

 But I conceive that Mr. Miiller's knowledge of these parts is very 

 imperfect. There are many elevated rocks upon this cape, and pos- 

 sibly some one or other of them may have the shape of a heart. 



" At four in the morning the cape, which, on the authority of 

 Miiller, we have called Serdze Kamen, bore S. S. West." III., 261. 



31. Gvosdjeff's i^e^se. Note 121, 



