The National Geographic Magazine, Vol. II., No. 2, May, 1890Various
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The National Geographic Magazine, Vol. II., No. 2, May, 1890
Various
Geography -- Periodicals
[Footnote 18: The positions in this column are taken from the most
recent charts of the U. S. Coast Survey and the U. S. and Russian
Hydrographic bureaux.]
[Footnote 19: Campbell has 98° 30' E. of Tobolsk, an error(?), for 95°
30' (=162° 30' E. Gr.). Bering omits this position.]
[Footnote 20: Campbell's confusion of two entries is here corrected
from Bering's Report.]
[Footnote 21: Confused with preceding entry by Campbell.]
[Footnote 22: Campbell's confusion here corrected.]
[Footnote 23: Bering gives both east and west points of entrance in his
table.]
[Footnote 24: The southern end of the cape is assumed to be meant.]
[Footnote 25: U. S. Coast Survey, 1880, Marcus Baker, observer; his
position is reduced to the N. W. extreme of the island by adding 5' of
latitude and deducting 30' 35" in longitude. See Bull. Phil. Soc. of
Washington, iv, p. 133, 1882, and U. S. Coast Survey Report for 1880,
App. No. 16.]
[Footnote 26: St. Diomide on the chart.]
[Footnote 27: The island is omitted by Du Halde and Müller, but appears
on Campbell's version of Bering's chart.]
[Footnote 28: Campbell, p. 1024; omitted by Bering from his report.]
[Footnote 29: Campbell, p. 1022; also Bering's Report.]
[Footnote 30: Lieut. Onatsevich in Report Russ. Hydrographic office,
1878.]
[Footnote 31: Oskoi (error for Ooskoi), on most early charts; sometimes
Osnoi (error for Uzhnoi=southern).]
[Footnote 32: Determined in 1741 by Krassilnikoff to be 52° 55' and
156° 24' E. Gr.]
[Footnote 33: From the chart; on p. 114 Müller has 156° 10'.]
[Footnote 34: Name St. Deomed on chart, but no island represented.]
[Footnote 35: From Jefferys' copy of the chart; on p. 47 of text N.
Lat. 67° 18' appears but no longitude is given.]
[Footnote 36: From the chart; on p. 114 of text it is given as 53° 01'
45". Krassilnikoff (see note 32), made it N. Lat. 53° 01' and 158° 10'
E. Lon. from Greenwich, from eclipses of Jupiter's satellites.]
[Footnote 37: From the chart; the text, p. 114, makes it 51° 03'.]
RESUMÉ OF THE RESULTS.
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