_Lettera di Amerigo Vespucci_, Florence, 1516, the second collection of the four voyages; _Peter Martyr_, _Ioannes ruffus, De Orbe Decades_, Alcala, 1516, the first edition of three decades; and _Giustiniani_, _Psalterium_, Genoa, 1516, which appends a life of Columbus to the nineteenth Psalm, are among the new books of the year. [1517.] Eden, in his dedication of an English translation of _Munster's Cosmography_, in 1553, speaks of certain ships "furnished and set forth" in 1517 under Sebastian Cabot and Sir Thomas Pert; but so faint was the heart of the baronet that the voyage "toke none effect." On this authority some authors have ascribed a voyage to Cabot in 1517, to regions concerning which they do not agree. An expedition whose destination and results are unknown, can have had little effect on geographical knowledge; and Kohl, after a full discussion of the subject, seems to have proved against Biddle, its chief supporter, that there is not sufficient evidence of such a voyage. _Navigatione di Sebastiano Cabota_, in _Ramusio_, tom. ii. fol. 212; _Kunstmann_, _Entdeckung Am._, pp. 54-5; _Roux de Rochelle_, in _Bulletin, Soc. Géog._, Apr. 1832, p. 209; _Peter Martyr_, dec. iii. cap. vi. Francisco Hernandez de Córdoba, with three vessels and 110 men, sailed from La Habana February 8, 1517, sent by the governor of Cuba to make explorations toward the west. Touching at Cape Catoche, in Yucatan, he coasted the peninsula in fifteen days to Campeche, and six days later reached Potonchan, or Champoton, where a battle was fought with the natives, and the Spaniards defeated. Accounts indicate that the explorers were not unanimous in supposing Yucatan to be an island, as it was afterward represented on some maps. Failing to procure a supply of water in the slough of Lagartos, Córdoba sailed across the Gulf to Florida, and thence returned to Cuba, where he died in ten days from his wounds. I find nothing to show what part of Florida he touched. _Torquemada_, _Monarq. Ind._, tom. i. pp. 349-51; _Peter Martyr_, dec. iv. cap. i.; _Oviedo_, _Hist. Gen._, tom. i. pp. 497-8; _Galvano's Discov._, pp. 130-1; _Gomara_, _Conq. Mex._, fol. 8-9; _Herrera_, _Hist. Gen._, dec. ii. lib. ii. cap. xvii.; _Cogolludo_, _Hist. Yucathan_, pp. 3-8; _Prescott's Mex._, vol. i. pp. 222-24; _Viages Menores_, in _Navarrete_, tom. iii. pp. 53-5; _West-Indische Spieghel_, p. 188; _Icazbalceta_, _Col. Doc._, tom. i. pp. 338-41.