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Among the improvements introduced on this map may be specified, 
the correction of the shores of the Okhotsk Sea, and Gulf of Penjina, 
the correcter location of the mouth of the Anadyr river and its estuary, 
the introduction of the results of the voyages of Gvosdeff, Bering and 
Chirikoff to the northwest coast of America, and a multitude of details 
relating to northeastern Siberia. The island of St. Deomid (Diomede) 
is not represented though its name appears on the 65th parallel in Ber- 
ing Strait. The island may have been on the original map and care- 
lessly omitted by Jefferys’ engraver on his copy. Among the errors, or 
rather mistaken hypotheses of others, which are suggested in this map 
by dotted lines, are the extension westward to 174° E. of Greenwich, 
of the peninsula of Aliaska which is also given a wholly uncalled-for 
width; and the northward extension of the coast on each side of Bering 
Strait. In the former case the cartographer was misled by the errors 
of the map of Bering and Chirikoff’s last voyage and rumors reported 
by other navigators; and in the second case he followed Bering in 
adopting an erroneous position and exaggerated form for the coast 
eastward from Koliuchin Bay, due to the uncorrected sketches of the 
Cossacks and traders. The northern extension of the American coast 
opposite, was purely hypothetical and for this Miller must be held 
responsible. Many of the western Aleutians are exaggerated in size 
and erroneous in position but the chart of Bering’s last voyage, and 
the exaggerated reports of the hunters who followed him, must be held 
responsible for this, in the main. 
The work in which this chart appears is largely derived from Miiller’s 
‘‘Sammlung russische geschichte,” St. Peterburg, 1758, vol. iii, Parts 
_ LIII (cf. antea). The first edition is entitled, according to bibli- 
ographies: 
“Voyages from Asia to America for completing the discoveries 
of the northwest coast of America. A summary of voyages made 
by the Russians on the frozen sea. From the high Dutch of 
S[taatsrath]. Muller by T. Jefferys. London: T. Jefferys, 
1761.” Ixvi, 76 pp. 4°, with four maps. 
The second edition which is that referred to in this paper is entitled 
“Voyages from Asia to America, for completing the dis- 
coveries of the northwest coast of America. To which is pre- 
fixed, a summary of the Voyages made by the Russians on the 
Frozen Sea, in search of a northeast passage. Serving as an 
explanation of a map of the Russian discoveries, published by 
the Academy of Sciences at Petersburgh, [ete.] London: T. 
Jefferys, 1764,” vill, 120 pp. 4°, four maps. 
A French translation by Dumas, with the author’s initials misprinted 
G. P. instead of G. F., was printed at Amsterdam in 1766. It consisted 
of two volumes, 18mo, with a map. A Danish translation, by Morten 
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