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(our Vol. I, Ch. 6). It is accompanied by a map showing the results 

 of the expedition (see caption of Fig. 29. above, third paragraph) and 

 a larger drawing of a fur seal, a sea lion, and a sea cow. An earlier map 

 by Waxel (archives of the Hydrographic Section of the Ministry of 

 Marine No. 1940) accompanied his report of Nov. 15, 1742. On these 

 appeared cruder pictures of the sea animals (reproduced by Pekarskii, 

 Zapiski Imp. Akad. Nauk, Vol. 15. Suppl. i, St. Petersburg, 1869) and 

 the picture of the Aleut in his haidarka reproduced in our Vol. i, Fig. 

 12.] 



{b) Published 



[\V.\XEL, SvEN.] A letter from a Russian sea-officer to a person of dis- 

 tinction at the court of St. Petersburgh, containing his remarks upon 

 Mr. de I'lsles's chart and memoir relative to the new discoveries north- 

 ward and eastward from Kamtschatka, together with some observa- 

 tions on that letter by Arthur Dobbs, Esq., Governor of North Caro- 

 lina. To which is added Mr. de I'lsle's explanatory memoir on his 

 chart, published at Paris and now translated from the original French. 

 London, 1754. 83 pp. [This is the English translation of Waxel's 

 "Lettre d'un officier de la marine russienne" listed in the Bibliography 

 of Vol. I, p. 362. The booklet consists of the following: pp. 1-33, the 

 letter; pp. 37-51, "Observations upon the Russian Discoveries Men- 

 tioned in a [the] Letter" by Arthur Dobbs; pp. 56-71. J- N. Delisle's 

 "An Explanation of the Map of the New Discoveries Northward of the 

 South Sea" (translation of Delisle's 1752 memoir listed in Vol. i,p. 360) ; 

 pp. 72-81, Admiral de Fonte's letter (see Vol. i, top of p. 361); pp. 

 82-83, extract from the register of the Paris Academy of Sciences. 

 Jan. 13, 1751-] 



Krasheninnikov, S. p. Histoire et description du Kamtchatka, conte- 

 nant L Les moeurs & les coutumes des habitants du Kamtchatka, II, 

 La geographic du Kamtchatka et des pays circonvoisins. Traduit du 

 russe. 2 vols., Amsterdam, 1770. [This is the French translation 

 mentioned in the Bibliography of Vol. i, p. 360, third item.] 



Gmelin, Otto, edit. Johann Georg Gmelin, 1 709-1 755, der Erforscher 

 Sibiriens: Ein Gedenkbuch. Munich, 1911. [To a biographical sketch 

 by Robert Gradmann (pp. 3-20) are added the preface (i747) from 

 Gmelin's "Flora sibirica" and from his "Reise durch Sibirien" (see 

 Bibliography in Vol. i, p. 360, first item) and excerpts from the latter. 

 Letters that passed between Gmelin and Linne, Steller, Haller are also 

 reprinted.] 



N ear-Contemporary Accounts of Bering's Expeditions, 

 and Compendiujns 

 Robertson, William. The history of America. 2 vols., London, 1777. 

 [In Book IV, on pp. 273-277, of this history, which was widely read 



