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Pribiloff group was discovered by Synd, put in its true latitude, and 
named Preobrazhenia or Transfiguration Island. It is about seven 
degrees out in relative longitude and fourteen in absolute longitude. 
One cannot doubt however that it was the island now known as St. 
Paul when we recall the fact that there are no other islands than the 
Pribiloff group, in that latitude or within that general area of Bering 
Sea. The southern Cape of the Chukchi Peninsula, Chukotski Cape of 
Bering and Miller is represented two degrees too far south. Preobra- 
zhenia Bay is not recognizable but the name is transferred to the 
bight west and north of Cape Bering of our present charts. This part 
of the coast was not however approached by Synd, who spent much 
time on the coast of Kamchatka. On his chart this peninsula is repre- 
_ sented better than we should have expected from the rudeness of the 
rést. 
. The map of the Academy shows the influence of those who discredited 
the near approach of America to eastern Siberia ; notwithstanding the 
explorations of Deshneff, Gvosdeff and Synd, the American shore of 
Bering Strait has disappeared altogether. The eastern portion of the 
Chukchi Peninsula is indented by a host of hypothetical inlets, and 
defended by an unrecognizable archipelago of nameless islands. The 
far-stretching chain of islands, among which Bering’s second expedi- 
tion was so long entangled, excepting those confirmed by Krenitzen 
and Levasheff (who sailed far north of the southern are of the chain) is 
also absent. Excepting that the fictitious peninsula north from Chuk- 
chi land is effaced, the map in its main features for this region is less 
accurate than that of Bering, and does not compare very favorably 
with that of Miller, And yet but shortly after its publication, the ex- 
plorations of Cook and Clerke recorded the facts which should, when 
published, exalt the memory of the older geographers and scatter the 
hypotheses which for a time prevailed against them. 
Their explorations are included in 
“A voyage to the Pacific Ocean, undertaken by the command 
of his Majesty, for making discoveries in the northern hemis- 
phere, [etc.], performed under the direction of captains Cook, 
Clerke and Gore, in his Majesty’s ships the Resolution and Dis- 
covery, in the years 1776-1780. London, for T. Nicol and T. 
Cadell, 1784-5.” 3 volumes 4° and atlas folio.” 
This is the edition ordered by the Admiralty. Of this celebrated 
work, said to have been written from the explorers’ manuscripts by 
Bishop Douglas, there have been many editions. In the Bulletin of the 
Societé de Géographie, Paris, 1879, pp. 481-540, is a bibliography by 
James Jackson. 
The most interesting points in regard to Cook’s explorations about 
Bering Strait are comprised on the chart (vol. ii, p. 467) entitled : 
