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Petersburg. Berg
gives a summary of this journal. A translation by Dall is to be found
in _Appendix 19, Coast Survey, Washington, 1890_.
[8] A great dispute has waged among the finical academists, where the
Serdze Kamen of this trip really was; the Russian observations varying
greatly owing to fog and rude instruments. _Lauridsen_ quarrels with
_Mueller_ on this score. _Mueller_ was one of the theorists whose
wrongheadedness misled Bering.
[9] It was in 1730 that Gvozdef's report of a strange land between 65
degrees and 66 degrees became current. Whether this land was America,
Gamaland, or Asia, the savants could not know.
[10] It is from the works of _Gmelin_, _Mueller_, and _Steller_,
scientists named to accompany the expedition, that the most connected
accounts are obtained. The "menagerie," some one has called this
collection of scientists.
[11] Many of the workmen died of their hardships at this stage of the
journey.
[12] Berg says Bering's two sons, Thomas and Unos, were also with him
in Siberia.
[13] _Sauer_ relates this incident.


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