418 APPENDIX TO COUNTER-CASE OF GREAT BRITAIN. 



ou tlie Map, extendiup: from a point to the west of the ex- 

 tremity of the Peuiusula of Kamtehatka, iu a uorth-easterly 

 dii'ection, to about the position Avhieh St. Matthew Island 

 is now known to occupj', or to the centre of Bohring Sea. 



After Behring-s second expedition, in which the Com- 

 mander himself miserably perished, but in the course of 

 which the American coast was reached, and the Commander 

 and Aleutian Islands in part discovered, we tind a Map pub- 

 lished by Miiller, the historian and geographer of the expe- 

 dition. This is entitled, in the English translation of Miil- 

 ler's work, published in London in 1701, ''A Map of of the 

 Discoveries made by the Eussians on the North-west Coast 

 of America," published hy the Royal Academy of Sciences 

 at St. Petersburgh, and republished in London by Thomas 

 Jeffreys. 



In this Map the islands now knoAvn as the Aleutian 

 Islands and the Commander Islands are indicated A^ery in- 

 accurately, and the greater part of what is now known as 

 Behring Sea is occupied by a great conjectural promontory 

 of the American Continent, leaving a comparatively narrow 

 and sinuous body of water or strait running in a direction 

 proximately parallel to the Asiatic coast, and separating 

 the two continents. The southern portion of this is named 

 on the Map /Sea of Kamtchatl-a, the northern Sea of Anadir, 

 in equivalent characters. Behring Strait, as now known, 

 appears without name, while the wider ocean to the south 

 is named Great South Sea or Facijic Ocean. 



A rei)roductiou on a smaller scale of the same Map ap- 

 pears in the '^London Magazine" for 1701. This is entitled, 

 "A new Map of the Xorth-east Coast of Asia and North- 

 west Coast of America, Avith the late lUissian Discoveries." 

 It repeats the nomenclature and all the errors of the origi- 

 nal Map, but employs the term Great Souili Sea only, the 

 addition ''or Pacific Ocean" being omitted. 



After the date of the x>ublication of Cook's third voyage 

 in 1781, what is now known as Behring Sea began to ap- 

 pear on Maps in something like its true form and propor- 

 tions, and in the Map accompanying the official record of 

 his voyages, of the date mentioned, we find that sea with- 

 out special distinctive name, and simply regarded as apart 

 of the Pacific Ocean, though the names Olutorsli Sea, 

 Beaver Sea, and Gulf of Anadir are engraved in parts of 

 it close to the Siberian shores, and Shoal Water and Bris- 

 tol Bay appear as local names of equivalent rank on the 

 opposite American coast. 



From this date onward the usage became very varied. 

 Many Maps continued to appear till 1810 or later, upon 

 which no name of a distinctive kind was giAWm to 

 87 Behring Sea, while upon others it became customary 

 to extend the originally local name Sea of Kam- 

 tcliatlxa to the whole of this body of water. Doubtless be- 

 cause of the ambiguity attaching to this i)articular name, 

 from its originally strictly local use, at later dates it began 

 to be customary to employ Behriug's luime for the sea now 

 so called, till at the present time tliat name may be said to 

 have entirely superseded the older one, and to have passed 

 into common use. 



