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Show Bering; Haa, Not llebrlug. Pall Mall OiM'tte. We all sppll lighting's sea wrongly, it seems. The name of tho Danish navigator, after whom tho sua in question ques-tion was railed, was Vitus Bering. We do not indued (says a learned writer in the Neuo Zuriuhnr Zeitutig) "possess an account of bis voyages published by himself, hut the historian, Gerhard Fried rich Muller, who, when in the service of tho czar, accompanied an expedition ex-pedition to eastern Siberia, and had free access to all ollicial documents, used Bering's written memoranda in his 'History of Sibera,' a work consisting consist-ing of live volumes, and faithfully rendered rend-ered the name of Commodore lieriug. This same spoiling wan followed though-out though-out by the reviser of Muller'i 'History.' J. K. Fischer, who was al.so a member of the expedition just mentioned, and went to .Siberia in l'W, when the commodore com-modore was still living; by the German, ( 1. W. Steller, who haaaccompanicd the discoverer as naturalists; by J. i. (imelin, St. Krasehenninnikow and several sev-eral other authors describing Siberian travels of the eighthteenth century. The correot spelling Is further found in our best handbooks and maps, such as Cannablsch, Daniel, Stleler. etc." Let us hope that all this will be accepted as conclusive. It would be dreadful, indeed, in-deed, to have another open question in connection with this much-vexed sea. i . - |