The very rare map in _Stobnicza's Ptolemy_, Cracoviæ, 1512, I have not seen. It is said to show the New World as a continuous coast from 50° north latitude to 40° south. Neither in the text nor in the map is found the name America. [Sidenote: DISCOVERY OF THE PACIFIC OCEAN.] [1513.] In September, 1513, Vasco Nuñez de Balboa set out from the settlement of Antigua on the gulf of Urabá, and crossing the narrow isthmus which joins the two Americas, discovered a vast ocean to the southward on the other side of the supposed Asia. The Isthmus here runs east and west, and on either side, to the north and to the south are great oceans, which for a long time were called the North Sea and the South Sea. After exploring the neighboring coasts he returned to Antigua in January, 1514, after an absence of four months. _Galvano's Discov._, pp. 123-5; _Peter Martyr_, dec. iii. cap. i.; _Oviedo_, _Hist. Gen._, tom. iii. pp. 9-17; _Andagoya's Narrative_, p. 7; _Carta del Adelantado Vasco Nuñez de Balboa_, in _Pacheco_ and _Cárdenas_, _Col. Doc. Inéd._, tom. ii. p. 526. The _Ptolemy_ of 1513 has a map which is said to have been made by Hylacomylus as early as 1508, but concerning which there seems to be much uncertainty. I give a copy from the fac-simile of Stevens and Varnhagen. The name Cuba does not appear, and in its place is Isabela. Many of the names given by other maps to points on the coast of Cuba are transferred to the main-land opposite. The compiler evidently was undecided whether Cuba was a part of the Asiatic main or not, and therefore represented it in both ways. The coast line must be regarded as imaginary or taken from the old charts, unless, as M. Varnhagen thinks, Vespucci actually sailed along the Florida coast in 1497. This map if made in 1508 may be regarded as the first to join the southern continent, or Mundus Novus, to the main-land of Asia. This southern land is called 'Terra Incognita,' with an inscription stating expressly that it was discovered by Columbus, notwithstanding the fact that its supposed author proposed the name America in honor of Vespucci only the year before. In fact the map is in many respects incoherent, and is mentioned by most writers but vaguely. _Harrisse_, _Bib. Am. Vet._, no. 74; _Humboldt_, _Exam. Crit._, tom. iv. pp. 109 et seq., and Preface to _Ghillany_; _Kunstmann_, _Entdeckung Am._, pp. 130-2; _Kohl_, _Die beiden ältesten Karten von Am._, p. 33; _Varnhagen_, _Nouvelles Recherches_, Vienna, 1869, p. 56; _Stevens' Notes_, pl. ii. no. i. pp. 13, 14, 51; _Major's Prince Henry_, pp. 385-6; _Santarem_, in _Bulletin de la Soc. Géog._, May, 1847, pp. 318-23. [Illustration: MAP FROM PTOLEMY, 1513.] The name America is thought by Major to occur first on a manuscript map by Leonardo da Vinci, in the queen's collection at Windsor, to which he ascribes the date of 1513 or 1514.