'216 General A. W. Greely — Bering'' s First Voyage. 



chart of d'Aiiville, 1737, appears in the narrative of Adelung, 

 who speaks with a certain air of authority. He says : 



"These Beering maps were, after the captain's return, sent from Russia 

 to the King of Poland, who presented them to Mr. du Halde or, rather, 

 to Mr. d'Anville, who made the charts for his work. Du Halde is there- 

 fore very correctly informed when he, in the Memoires de Trevoux (737 

 pages, 2,389 f.) considers these charts questionable and imagines that they 

 were merely made by d'Anville from Beering's journal." 



But further evidence from an unquestionable source is available 

 as to date. The charts in^du Halde's "' China " were engraved 

 between the years 1729 and 1734, and all but the general maps 

 were completed prior to 1733. The date 1732 is assigned by 

 d'Anville's colleague to the map of Bering's journey. Of these 

 maps it is further said : 



"They form what is commonly known as d'Anville's Atlas of China. 

 Nevertheless this geographer did not participate equally in the production 

 of all. The detailed maps (of which the Bering map is one) were furnished 

 by the Jesuits and he only supervised the engraving, but the general charts 

 were entirely the work of dAnville, Avho reconstructed and amplified them 

 from all possible sources. They were reproduced at Hague under the title 

 ' New Atlas of China,' etc., by M. d'Anville." 



These statements of d'Anville's colleague, M. Barbie du Bocage, 

 are thus verified by du Halde, page Ixix : 



" Pour les Cartes Generales, nous y avons pen touche & celle du Voyage 

 du Capitaine Beerings paroit sans le moindre changement." 



In the Russian atlas, 1745, the explanatory text regarding map 

 19, whereon apj)ears the extreme northeastern coast of Siberia 

 and the greater part of Kamshatka, runs as follows : 



" We have determined the location of these provinces in part by astro- 

 nomical observations which have been made there, and in part upon cer- 

 tain geographical and hydrogi'aphic maps which have been transmitted 

 to us." 



So far as Kamshatka and the Bering strait regions go, it is 

 reasonable to believe that this chart, since it was published by 

 the Royal Academy of Sciences, is substantially a reproduction 

 of the map transmitted to the Academy by de I'Isle in 1732, 

 especially as this geographer was employed for about thirteen 

 years in amassing data for the atlas in question. 



