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32. Beiträge zur Kenntniss, etc., XVI., 44. Note.
33. Philip Johann Tabbert, ennobled in 1707 and called Von
Strahlenberg, was born at Stralsund in 1676, and taken captive
after the battle of Pultowa as captain in the army of Charles XII.
He was banished to Tobolsk, traveled some years with Dr.
Messerschmidt in Siberia, and together with other Swedish officers he
made several maps of Siberia, which, without his knowledge or
consent, were published in Holland by Bentinck, 1726, in L’Histoire des
Tartares, etc., and reprinted in various works such as La Russie
asiatique, tirée de la Carte donnée par ordre du feu Czar.” In
1730, Strahlenberg’s own work appeared in Leipsic; it is marked by
its minute knowledge of details. His representation of the
Chukchees peninsula deserves attention as evidence of the knowledge the
Cossacks had of this region, whereas there is nothing original in his
representation of the coast-lines of Eastern Asia. Baer says that
Strahlenberg’s book and map was made by a Leipsic student, and
that whatever it contains that is of value is taken from
Messerschmidt. Beiträge, XVI., 126. Note 18.
34. This map is reproduced in Nordenskjöld’s Voyage of the
Vega.
35. Steller: Reise von Kamtschatka, etc., p. 6, where a very
erroneous and unreasonable account of the result of Bering’s first
expedition is given.
36. Kiriloff’s map is found in Russici imperii Tab. Generalis
et Specialis, Vol. XLIII.
37. Strangely enough, no original copy seems to have remained
in the archives of the Admiralty. Berch insists that no such copy
exists. I investigated the matter in 1883, and later Mr. A.
Thornam has examined the archives for this purpose, but without result.
38. Du Halde writes: Ce Capitaine revint à Sct. Petersburg le
premier jour de Mars de l’année 1730, et apporta une relation
succinte de son voyage, avec la Carte qu’il en avoit dressée. Cette
Carte fût envoyée au Sérénissime Roi de Pologne, comme une
présent digne de son attention et de sa curiosité, et Sa Majesteté a
bien voulu qu’elle me fût communiquée en me permettant d’en faire
tel usage qu’il me plairot. J’ai cru que le Public me scauroit
quelque gré de l’avoir ajoutée à toutes celles que je lui avois promises.
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