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it was sent by Bering from Kamchatka, before his return to Russia, and 
to the Senate at St. Petersburg, to which Bering did not report. 
Whether due to the transcriber or the printer there are several very 
obvious errors in the list as printed by Campbell, and when it is com- 
pared with Bering’s own list we see that there are also several interpo- 
lations. 
But the positions adopted in the chart, said by Du Halde to have been 
brought to St. Petersburg by Bering on his return (a statement con- 
firmed by the mention of a chart in the report itself), are not identical 
with the positions enumerated in the list. This leads to the suspicion 
that Bering’s first chart was not published, and that the chart issued 
was due to a recomputation and revision of his data. This suspicion is 
_ made stronger by the statement of Lauridsen, who gives no authority, 
however, that Bering’s chart was made in Moscow in 1731,* though this 
may merely mean that some of the copies which were distributed to | 
various personages were so prepared. 
These manuscript copies of the chart and report were sent to various 
foreign courts. as a matter of general interest, by the Russian authori- 
ties. The copy used by Du Halde was communicated to him by the 
King of Poland who had received it as a “‘ Present worthy of his regard 
and curiosity ” (Du Halde, iv, p. 439, Brookes’ ed.). Other copies were 
sent to Sweden and probably to England and other countries. In the 
journal, ‘‘ Ymer,” of the Swedish Society for Anthropology and Geog- 
raphy (1884, p. 93) is a short notice by E. Dahlgren of three manuscript 
copies of Bering’s chart of his first expedition, or rather of charts 
embodying its results. Two of these charts are in the Royal archives 
of Sweden and measures 58x 185 cm. One of them is ornamented with 
ten colored drawings of natives of Siberia. The other is without these 
but does not seem to be a copy of the first as it has a number of sound- 
ings between St. Lawrence and the Diomede Islands which are not on 
the former, and some names which are peculiar to it. Both have 
many more names than are given on the chart published by Du Halde. 
Both of the manuscripts have a legend referring to the coast from the 
Kolyma eastward, on the north coast of Siberia, to the effect that it is 
put down from older charts and information, doubtless furnished by 
the archives at Yakutsk. The third copy is in the possession of Baron 
Robert Klinckofstr6m, of Stafsund, Sweden. 
Through the kind offices of Baron Nordenskiéld and the generosity of 
Baron Klinckofstrém, the last mentioned chart has been forwarded to 
the writer through the Smithsonian Institution for examination. It 
appears to be essentially the same as the second of the two charts 
referred to as comprised in the Royal Swedish Archives. The result of 
my examination of it leads me to the belief that there were two dif- 
ferent charts sent out in manuscript by the Russian authorities. The 
first, which I regard as the earlier, and which is certainly more accu- 
rate. shows the island of St. Demetrius in its proper place in accord- 
ance with Bering’s Report and list of positions. It formed the basis of 
* Lauridsen, Am. ed., p. 57. 
