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CHAPTER XVI.
BERING’S PLACE OF LANDING ON THE AMERICAN COAST.
— CAPTAIN COOK’S UNCERTAINTY.— THE QUESTION
DISCUSSED AND DEFINITELY SETTLED.
IN geographical literature complete uncertainty in
regard to Bering’s island St. Elias and its situation
off the American coast still prevails. This uncertainty is
due partly to Müller and partly to Cook. Müller is
inaccurate; in fact, confused. He says that Bering saw
the American continent in a latitude of 58° 28′, and at
a difference of longitude from Avacha of 50° (in reality,
58° 14′ and 56° 30′), but he gives neither the latitude
nor longitude of the island of St. Elias, which is the
important point, and on his map of 1758, where he goes
into details more than in his description, he marked on
latitude 58° 28′: “Coast discovered by Bering in 1741.”
On such vague reports nothing can be based. In the
ship’s journal, however, which Müller in all likelihood
must have seen, the latitude of the island is entered as
59° 40′, and the longitude, according to the ship’s
calculations, as 48° 50′ east of Avacha. But as Bering’s
calculations, on account of the strong current, which in
these waters flows at a rate of twenty miles, had an
error of about 8°, the longitude becomes 56° 30′ east of
Avacha, and at this astronomical point, approximately
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