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added certain flowers of rhetoric which detract from its accuracy. 
Campbell’s copy of the map is the most perfect yet published and the 
only one showing the island of St. Demetrius in its proper place. 
In Du Halde’s copy and those derived from it the eastern border of 
the chart has cut off the island, though in some of them, as in that of 
1736, the name remains. The only fault to be noted in Campbell’s 
edition of Bering’s map is the omission by the engraver of the small 
bay named Preobrazhenia by Bering and which, though it is not named, 
appears on the other editions of the map. The title is as follows : 
“An exact chart of all the countries through which Cap’. 
Behring travelled, from Tobolski Capital of Siberia to the country 
of Kamtschatka.” 
The size of the map is 7x 1234 inches. It extends on the east to the 
meridian of 126° east from Tobolsk which enables the ‘‘Isle of St. 
Demetrius” (our present Big Diomede) to appear in its proper place. 
The editions previously reported have all stopped at the 124th meridian, 
thus cutting off the island, whose name sometimes appeared and some- 
times did not. 
It will be observed that Dr. Campbell in this paper was the means of 
introducing the erroneous and obnoxious Germanized spelling of Ber- 
ing’s name into English literature. This is a pretty good indication 
that he had no autographic documents from Bering himself, and that 
his manuscripts were obtained from German sources, or at least had 
been transcribed into the German language. In his thorough search 
of the literature of the subject and lengthy discussion of the results, 
Dr. Campbell undoubtedly gathered the fullest account of the first 
expedition which had up to that date been printed. In order to 
enliven his history of the proceedings, the good Doctor occasionally 
rises to flights of fancy, and the theories he held were long since proved 
erroneous. 
There are several other English translations of Du Halde’s China, of 
which the following is the most important : 
“A description of the empire of China and Chinese-Tartary, 
together with the kingdoms of Korea, and Tibet : containing the 
geography and history (natural as well as civil) of those countries. 
From the French of P. J. B. Du Halde, Jesuit. Illustrated with 
general and particular maps, and adorned with a great number of 
cuts. With notes geographical, historical and critical, and other 
improvements, particularly in the maps, by the Translator.” 
London, Edward Cave, 1741. 2 vols. folio, maps and ills. 
This edition does not show the name of the translator, but he was 
evidently a man of no small attainments as a geographer and carto- 
grapher, and introduced numerous improvements and corrections into 
the charts of D’Anville, which accompanied the original edition of Du- 
