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g up ; 
_ original publication of Du Halde, perhaps from a more modern version 
of Bering’s chart, as previously suggested. 
Several names appear for the first time in cartographic history, upon 
this map. Preobrazhenia Bay ; Bolshoia River falling into Holy Cross 
Bay, and the “Isle de St. Diomide” are among these. The Island of 
St. Demetrius is omitted, as well as its name. The Island of St. 
Diomide is placed about on a line between East Cape and Cape 
Chukotski, to the westward of the meridian of East Cape. There isa 
discrepancy averaging about five minutes in latitude and longitude 
between the positions on this map and those on .the second version of 
the Bering manuscript charts. But in the main these differences are, I 
suspect, merely due to carelessness in copying, and the general har- 
mony between the two leads to the belief that the D’Anville outline for 
this region was based on the second version of the manuscript. 
The differences of position for points on this part of the coast are 
numerous. I have noted them in the comparative table of positions 
herewith. They may be chiefly owing to slips in transferring from the 
Mercator to the Polyconic projection ; but some of them are due to 
new information, probably derived from the surveyors of the second 
‘expedition. Bering island appears on the map, in about its proper 
place, though Copper island is not indicated, nor are any of the 
Aleutians shown. I suspect this is the first publication of a carto- 
graphic kind on which Bering island is laid down, as the map of the 
Imperial Academy of Sciences, embodying the geographical results of 
Bering’s Voyage to the coast of America, was not engraved until a 
vear later, while De L’Isle’s of 1752 does not contain them. 
The island between Cape Shelaginski and East Cape off the northern 
coast, on Bering’s map, is omitted by D’Anville. The Kamchatkan 
peninsula in latitude 56° is represented to have a width of 180 miles, 
while Bering made it 270 miles. 
A most important contribution to the subject appeared in Miiller’s 
Historical Collections known as the ‘‘Sammlung Russische Geschichte”’ 
and published at St. Petersburg (Kayserl. Academie der Wissenschaften, 
1732-64. 8°. Nine volumes.) Des dritten Bandes (erstes, zweytes und 
drittes Stiick, pp. 1-304, 1758) contains the original account of the 
Russian Voyages toward America from which the work of Jefferys 
has, with some errors and omissions, been translated. As far as 
regards Bering’s first voyage, there is only one error of consequence 
made by Jefferys, which will be noted in its place. This book is 
extremely rare, and the only copy in America which I have been able 
to find after much enquiry, is in the library of the Smithsonian 
Institution. 
The first volume of this series has the title 
“ Kroffnung eines Vorschlages zu Verbesserung der Russischen 
Historie Durch den Druck eines Stiickweise herauszugebenden 
Sammelungen von allerly zu den Umstanden und Begebenheiten 
dieses Reichs gehorigen Nachrichten. St. Petersburg, bey der 
Keyserl. Academie der Wissenschaften, 1732.” 
