Ruysch’s map of 1508 is a little more vague in its Antillia inscription as to the time of this adventure.[241] He says it was discovered by the Spaniards long ago; but perhaps this means a rediscovery, for he also chronicles the refuge sought there by King Roderick in the eighth century. PETER MARTYR’S IDENTIFICATION OF ANTILLIA Both of these representations show Antillia far in the ocean dissociated from any other land, but in the work of Peter Martyr d’Anghiera, contemporary and historian of Columbus, writing before 1511, we have an explicit identification as part of a well-known group or archipelago. He has been narrating the discovery of Cuba and Hispaniola and proceeds: Turning, therefore, the stems of his ships toward the east, he assumed that he had found Ophir, whither Solomon’s ships sailed for gold, but, the descriptions of the cosmographers well considered, it seemeth that both these and the other islands adjoining are the islands of Antillia.[242] Perhaps he meant delineations, like those we have yet to consider, and not descriptions in words; or writings concerning these islands may then have been extant which have since vanished as completely as the celebrated map of Toscanelli. Among “the other islands adjoining” we may be sure he included that island of Beimini, or Bimini (no other than Florida), a part of which, thus marked, occurs in his accompanying map and has the distinction of owning the fabled fountain of youth and luring Ponce de Leon into romantic but futile adventure. Perhaps only one other map gives it the name Bimini; but its insular character is plain on divers maps (made before men learned better), with varying areas and under different names. OTHER IDENTIFICATIONS Peter Martyr was not alone in his identification of the “islands of Antillia.” Canerio’s map,[243] attributed to 1502, names the large West India group “Antilhas del Rey de Castella,” though giving the name Isabella to the chief island; and another map of about the same date (anonymous)[244] gives them the collective title of Antilie, though calling the Queen of the Antilles Cuba, as now. A later map,[245] probably about 1518, varies the first form slightly to “Atilhas [i. e. Antilhas] de Castela” and shows also “Tera Bimini.” This is the second Bimini map above referred to.