One of the most conspicuous instances of a belief in this sea was the Lok map of 1582, which Hakluyt published, as has been already stated, in his Divers Voyages of that year, which, being made "according to Verarzanus's plot," is reproduced here from the cut already given in the preceding volume.1 With Lok we may consider that the western sea vanishes, unless there be thought a curious relic of it in the map which John White, of the Roanoke Colony, made in 1585 of the coast from the Chesapeake to Florida, which is preserved among the De Bry drawings 1 Vol. III. pp. 39, 40. Perfect copies of the Divers Voyages are very rare, and its two maps are often wanting. The two British Museum copies have them, but the Bodleian copy has only the Lok map, and the Carter-Brown copy is in the same condition; other copies are in Harvard College Library (map in fac-simile), in the Murphy Collection, and in Charles Deane's. The Lok map in the British Museum. The history of these drawings has been already told.1 There is a copy of this map in the Kohl Collection; but the annexed sketch is taken from a facsimile engraving given by Dr. Edward Eggleston in The Century Magazine, November, 1882. It will be observed that at Port Royal there seems to be a passage to western water of uncertain extent,2 which was interpreted later as an inland lake. 1 Vol. III. p. 123. 2 See also what is called "The Jomard map of 155- (?)" delineated on a later page. LOK'S MAP, 1582, — REDUCED. 8 JOHN WHITE, 1585. Other maps of this period have no trace of such western sea, like the protuberant * Terra del laboradore" of Bordone in 1521 and 1528;1 the "Terra Francesca" of the Premontré globe, now in the National Library at Paris; 2 the northeasterly trend of the map of the monk Franciscus; the "Nova Terra laboratorum dicta" of Robert Thorne's map (1527); Piero Coppo's Portolano of 1528, in which America appears as a group of islands; and in the British Museum among the Sloane Manuscripts a treatise, De principiis astronomie, which has a map in which the eastern coast of America is made to consist of two huge peninsulas, one of them being marked "Terra Franciscana nuper lustrata,' "5 and the other, "Baccalear regio," ending towards the east with a cape, "Rasu." 6 Kunstmann in his Atlas (pl. vi.) gives a map which he places between 1532 and 1540; it is of unknown authorship. Wieser, in his Magalhães-Strasse (p. 77), points to a globe of Schöner, the author of 1 Lelewel, pl. 46; H. H. Bancroft's Central America, i. 144. An engraved map by Bordone, in 1534, represents what seems to be North America, calling the vaguely rendered northeastern coast "Terra delavoratore," while a passage to the west separates a part of South America. 2 See Vol. III. p. 214. ♦ See Vol. III. p. 17. 5 Kohl, in a marginal note, thinks this may refer to Verrazano; he dates the map about 1530. • There is a copy in the Kohl Collection. the Opusculum geographicum, in which he claimed that "Bachalaos – called from a new kind of fish there had been discovered to be continuous with Upper India." There is a chart of Newfoundland and the Gulf of St. Lawrence dated 1534, and of which Kohl gives a sketch in his Discovery of Maine (pl. xviiia). It is 11. Spagnola. 10. Cuba. 12. Timitistan Valmesicho. 13. Acapulco. There is another sketch of it in H. H. Bancroft's Central America, i. 154. شمية 12 signed by Gaspar Viegas, of whom nothing is known. NORTH AMERICA, 1532-1540 (after Kunstmann). A map, in what Harrisse 1 calls the Wolfenbüttel Man uscript, has the legend upon Labrador: "This land was discovered by the English from Bristol, and named Labrador because the one who saw it first was a laborer from the Azores." Biddle, in his Sebastian Cabot, p. 246, had conjectured from a passage in a letter of Pasqualigo in the Paesi novamente retrovati of 1507 (lib. vi. cap. cxxvi.), that the name had come from Corte real's selling its natives in Lisbon as slaves. 1 Cabots, p. 185. |