BIB_ID
107418
Accession number
MA 38.38
Creator
Kruzenshtern, Ivan Fedorovich, 1770-1846.
Display Date
1819 Dec. 20.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1905.
Description
1 item (4 p.), bound ; 224.6 cm.
Notes
Baron Wrangel was a Russian explorer and the founder of the Russian Geographic Society.
Part of a collection of correspondence and papers of Rear Admiral James Burney. Items in this collection have been described individually in separate catalog records; see collection level record for more information.
Part of a collection of correspondence and papers of Rear Admiral James Burney. Items in this collection have been described individually in separate catalog records; see collection level record for more information.
Provenance
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan from the London dealer Quaritch in July 1905.
Summary
Discussing the contiguity of Asia and America; saying that they will send two expeditions to continue to understand the geography of the region; relating details of the expedition to be under the command of Baron Wrangel that will sail north up the Kolyma River; saying that ..."by believing the contiguity of Asia and America we must admit that America extending to the westward across the Behring Straits joins Cape Shelagsky;" saying Wrangel hoped to determine "the limits of Russia and consequently its size which is not at all settled;" discussing the results of other Russian expeditions as those findings relate to information Burney has gathered in his research.
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