_C. R. Markham, Life of Columbus, chapter 5._ {50} The statement above that the island of the Bahamas on which Columbus first landed, and which he called San Salvador, "has now been ascertained to be Watling Island" seems hardly justified. The question between Watling Island, San Salvador or Cat Island, Samana, or Attwood's Cay, Mariguana, the Grand Turk, and others is still in dispute. Professor Justin Winsor says "the weight of modern testimony seems to favor Watling's Island;" but at the same time he thinks it "probable that men will never quite agree which of the Bahamas it was upon which these startled and exultant Europeans first stepped." _J. Winsor, Christopher Columbus, chapter 9._ _J. Winsor, Narrative and Critical History of America, volume 2, chapter 1, note B._ Professor John Fiske, says: "All that can be positively asserted of Guanahani is that it was one of the Bahamas; there has been endless discussion as to which one, and the question is not easy to settle. Perhaps the theory of Captain Gustavus Fox, of the United States Navy, is on the whole best supported. Captain Fox maintains that the true Guanahani was the little Island now known as Samana or Attwood's Cay." _J. Fiske, The Discovery of America, chapter 5 (volume 1)._ ALSO IN _U. S. Coast and Geodetic Survey, Report, 1880, appendix 18._ AMERICA: A. D. 1493. Papal grant of the New World to Spain.