Note 162 — INTRODUCTION TO THE FIRST EDITION.
Reading edition
In this report the learned Professor comes to widely different conclusions from those of Lütke with respect to the identification of the several stations visited by the Dutch; the great point of difference between them being, that Baer bases his arguments almost exclusively on the distances along the western coast of Novaya Zemlya recorded by De Veer, especially in the Table given near the end of his third voyage.162