Description: A facsimile of the sketch map from the U.S. Geodetic Survey, 1880, used to illustrate the theory of early connection of Asiatic peoples with the western coast of North America. "The weightiest authority of his time, Alex. Von Humboldt, formulated his belief in several of his books: Vues des Cordillères; Ansichten der Nature; Cosmos. Of the northern routes, that by Behring's Straits is the most apparent, and Lyell says that when half–way over Dover Straits, which have not far from the same dimensions, he saw both the English and French shores at the same time, he was easily convinced that the passage by Behring's Straits solved many of the difficulties of the American Problem." — Winsor, 1889, pp. 76–78.
Place Names: Regional Pacific Ocean, North America, Asi
ISO Topic Categories: physical, kWorldPacific
Keywords: Bering Sea and Adjacent Waters, physical, physical features, physical, kWorldPacific, Unknown, 1834
Source: Justin Winsor, Narrative and Critical History of America Vol 1 (New York, NY: Houghton, Mifflin, and Company, 1889) 77
Map Credit: Courtesy the private collection of Roy Winkelman |
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