The story got further currency in Ramusio (1574, vol. ii.), Ortelius (1575), Hakluyt (1600, vol. iii.), Megiser’s _Septentrio Novantiquus_ (1613), Purchas (1625), Pontanus’ _Rerum Danicarum_ (1631), Luke Fox’s _North-West Fox_ (1633), and in De Laet’s Notæ (1644), who, as well as Hornius, _De Originibus Americanis_ (1644), thinks the story suspicious. It was repeated by Montanus in 1671, and by Capel, _Vorstellungen des Norden_, in 1676. Some of the features of the map had likewise become pretty constant in the attendant cartographical records. But from the close of the seventeenth century for about a hundred years, the story was for the most part ignored, and it was not till 1784 that the interest in it was revived by the publications of Forster[714] and Buache,[715] who each expressed their belief in the story. A more important inquiry in behalf of the narrative took place at Venice in 1808, when Cardinal Zurla republished the map in an essay, and marked out the track of the Zeni on a modern chart.[716] In 1810, Malte-Brun accorded his belief in the verity of the narrative, and was inclined to believe that the Latin books found in Estotiland were carried there by colonists from Greenland.[717] A reactionary view was taken by Biddle in his _Sebastian Cabot_, in 1831, who believed the publication of 1558 a fraud; but the most effective denial of its authenticity came a few years later in sundry essays by Zahrtmann.[718] [Illustration: RICHARD H. MAJOR. [After a photograph kindly furnished by himself at the editor’s request.—ED.]] The story got a strong advocate, after nearly forty years of comparative rest, when R. H. Major, of the map department of the British Museum, gave it an English dress and annexed a commentary, all of which was published by the Hakluyt Society in 1873. In this critic’s view, the good parts of the map are of the fourteenth century, gathered on the spot, while the false parts arose from the misapprehensions of the young Zeno, who put together the book of 1558.[719] The method of this later Zeno was in the same year (1873) held by Professor Konrad Maurer to be hardly removed from a fraudulent compilation of other existing material. There has been a marked display of learning, of late years, in some of the discussions. [Illustration: BARON NORDENSKJÖLD. [From a recent photograph. There is another engraved likeness in the second volume of his _Vega_.]]