Review of Bering’s First Expedition, 1725-30. 11g 
M’ D’Anville, Géographe ordinaire de sa Majesté trés Chrétienne, 
Précedé d'une description de la Boucharie, Par un Officier Suedois 
que a fait quelque sejour dans ce Pays. A la Haye, chez Henri 
Scheurleer mpccxxxvit. Folio, 12 pp. 42 charts. 
The chart of Bering forms sheet 42, and differs from the others in 
being on Mercator’s projection which indicates that it was copied 
directly from an original as stated in the text. and not redrawn. It is 
2034 by 93% inches on the neat-lines and is entitled : 
“Carte des Pays traversé par le Cap"®. Beerings depuis la 
ville de Tobolsk jusqu’a Kamtschatka.” 
Beneath the title is a table of four transliterated Russian terms for 
fort, post, village and convent, with their French equivalents. This 
and certain peculiarities in the transliteration of proper names make it 
certain that the original chart was in Russian and that the translitera- 
tion was done by some one not perfectly familiar with both languages. 
There are a few errors of the engraver in rendering single letters ‘‘ c” 
appearing for ‘‘t” and ‘‘r” for ‘‘e” in a few places. The longitude is 
reckoned in degrees east from Tobolsk to which 67° degrees when added 
will give practically the meridian east from Greenwich. The transcriber 
of the map from the Russian appears to have been a Dane, G. Kondet. 
That part of this chart east from 112° E. Gr. has been fairly repro- 
duced by Lauridsen (Chart I) with the omission of some unimportant 
names and the addition of a signature (not the ordinary autograph) of 
Bering. This is reproduced with a different running headline to 
accompany Olson’s translation. 
The fourth volume of Brookes’ translation (pp. 429-440) con- 
tains 
*“ A succinct narrative of Captain Beerings’s Travels into 
Siberia :” 
with a reduction of the above-mentioned map, on which there is no 
trace of the island of St. Demetrius, even its name, which alone appears 
on the Du Halde map, is here omitted. Otherwise this version of the 
map does not differ from Du Halde’s, more than one copy of a drawing 
usually differs from another. When Bering started on his expedition 
he was accompanied by two cartographers (Bergh, First Voy. of the 
Russ. pp. 2-5, fide Lauridsen) Luzhin and Potiloff, and to one or both of 
them under Bering’s direction the construction of the map in question 
was probably due. 
When Bering made his report it was accompanied by a list of posi- 
tions for important places visited by the Expedition. 
Dr. Campbell, while gathering material for his second edition of 
Harris’ Voyages, procured a copy of this unpublished list of positions 
and prints it in his account of Bering’s travels, with the comment that 
