Cat Island was the landfall advocated by Washington Irving and Humboldt, mainly on the ground that it was called San Salvador on the West India map in Blaeu's Dutch atlas of 1635. But this was done for no known reason but the caprice of the draughtsman. D'Anville copied from Blaeu in 1746, and so the name got into some later atlases. Cat Island does not meet a single one of the requirements of the case. Guanahani had a reef round it, and a large lagoon in the center. Cat Island has no reef and no lagoon. Guanahani was low; Cat Island is the loftiest of the Bahamas. The two islands could not be more different. Of course, in conducting Columbus from Cat Island to Cuba, Washington Irving is obliged to disregard all the bearings and distances given in the journal.] [Footnote 49: The cross-staff had not then come into use, and it was never of much service in low latitudes.] [Footnote 50: It was also resolved to establish in the city of Washington a Latin-American Memorial Library, wherein should be collected all the historical, geographical, and literary works, maps, and manuscripts, and official documents relating to the history and civilization of America, _such library to be solemnly dedicated on the day on which the United States celebrates the fourth centennial of the discovery of America_.] [Footnote 51: Published by A. C. McClurg & Co., Chicago.] [Footnote 52: Copyright, 1892, by Harper & Brothers.] [Footnote 53: NOTE.--Those marked * were left behind, in the fort, at La Navidad, and perished there.] [Footnote 54: NOTE.--The names of the crew are on the Madrid monument.] [Footnote 55: Randolph Rogers, an American sculptor of eminence, was born in Waterloo, N. Y., in 1825; died at Rome, in the same State, aged sixty-seven, January 14, 1892.] [Footnote 56: Mr. George Sumner, a painstaking investigator, states that after diligent search he is unable to find any other inscription to the memory of Columbus in the whole of Spain. At Valladolid, where he died, and where his body lay for some years, there is none, so far as he could discover; neither is there any trace of any at the Cartuja, near Seville, to which his body was afterward transferred, and in which his brother was buried. It is (he writes in 1871) a striking confirmation of the reproach of negligence, in regard to the memory of this great man, that, in this solitary inscription in old Spain, the date of his death should be inaccurately given.--Major's "Letters of Columbus," 1871. (The Madrid and Barcelona statues were erected in 1885 and 1888 respectively.)--S. C. W.] [Footnote 57: Since writing this the Lotto portrait has been selected.] [Footnote 58: For an English metrical translation, see _post_, WIFFEN.] [Footnote 59: Died at Aldworth October 6, 1892.] NEW YORK CELEBRATED THE TERCENTENARY.