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Campbell’s engraving which will be referred to later, and of the chart 
which appears in the various editions of Du Halde. It is possible that 
this represents the original chart prepared by Bering in Kamchatka 
during the winter of 1728-9... The second and probably later form of 
the chart is represented by the Klinckofstrém chart, upon which the 
name and island of St. Demetrius have vanished and a smaller island 
in the corresponding latitude is represented close to the Siberian coast 
and westward from the meridian passing through the eastern extreme 
of East Cape. This island is named the island of St. Diomede. If it is 
intended as a revised position for the island of St. Demetrius of the 
other chart and of Bering’s Report, it is in conflict with the facts and 
with the position assigned to St. Demetrius in the report. No one who 
had sailed between St. Demetrius and East Cape could have sanctioned 
such a position for the island with honesty. If a different island is 
intended the question arises, Why is St. Demetrius omitted? This sec- 
ond chart is obviousiy the basis upon which in D’Anville’s chart of 
Asia (1758) the configuration of the eastern extreme of Siberia is based, 
and I suspect that the chart of the Imperial Academy of Sciences at 
St. Petersburg and the reproduction of Jefferys, were also derived from 
it as far as this region is concerned. 
It would be rash, in the absence of authentic information which only 
the Russian archives can supply, to hazard an opinion as to the origin 
of the important difference between these charts. I may return to this 
point later. Apart from this, it may be added that the northern coast 
of Siberia from East Cape west to Cape Sheiagskoi is represented as 
mountainous throughout its extent. A legend states that it is laid 
down from older charts and information. This relieves Bering from 
the responsibility for the fictitious or at least grossly erroneous and 
exaggerated form and direction given to Cape Shelagskoi on his chart. 
The west coast of the Okhotsk sea and part of its northeastern shores 
not visited by Bering are stated to be laid down from ‘‘information.” 
This map is not dated and the blank space in the title left for Bering’s 
autograph has never been filled. No name of draughtsman or place or 
authority of issue are indicated upon it. It measures 51 by 204 inches 
between the neat-lines. It is in black and white, the mountains 
washed in, the only color being small green trees as a conventional sign 
for wooded country. A copy of the earlier chart fell into the hands of 
Dr. Campbell and was published by him in his edition of Harris’ 
Voyages,* together with a version of the report which is more or less 
mutilated and to which the editor to make his book more readable has 
* HARRIS, JOHN. Complete collection of Voyages and travels [etc. ]. 
London, T. Woodward [and others] 1748. 2 -v. folio, maps and plates, 
Vol. 2, pp. 1016-1041, is devoted to a discussion of Bering’s discoveries, 
entitled : Book III, Section VIII. ‘‘A distinct account of part of the 
northeast frontier of the Russian Empire, commonly called the country 
of Kamschatka or Kamschatska including the voyages of Captain 
Behring for discovering toward the East [etc.], collected from the best 
authorities both printed and manuscript.” 
