[Illustration: NEW WORLD FROM THE LENOX GLOBE.] Simon Passe, whose Latinized name we see on the engraving of Smith’s map, was ten years in England, and engraved many of the chief people of the time; and as he was his own draughtsman, it is probable the portrait of Smith was drawn by Passe from life, though Robert Clerke is credited with draughting the map. =E.= EARLY GLOBES.—The Molineaux globe referred to in the text was constructed at the instance of that great patron of navigation, William Sanderson. (_Davis’s Voyages_, Introduction by Markham, pp. xii. 211.) It is said to be the earliest ever made in England. (_Ibid._ p. lix.) It is two feet in diameter, and was completed in 1592. (Asher’s _Henry Hudson_, p. 274.) The oldest globe known antedates it more than a century, and of those intervening which are known, the following, with the prototype, deserve mention:— 1. Martin Behaim’s, 1492, preserved in the library at Nuremberg. It presents an open ocean between Europe and Asia. The first meridian runs through Madeira. There is a copy in fac-simile in the Bibliothèque Nationale, at Paris. There have been engraved delineations of it by Doppelmayr at Nuremberg in 1730; by Dr. Ghillany, in connection with his _Geschichte des Seefahrers Ritter Martin Behaim_, 1853; by Jomard in his _Monuments de la Géographie_, 1854-56, pl. 15. There are sections and reductions in Cladera’s _Investigaciones Historicas_, Madrid, 1794; in Lelewel’s _Moyen Age_; in the _Journal of the Royal Geographical Society_, xviii.; in Kohl’s _Discovery of Maine_; in some of the editions of Irving’s _Columbus_; in Bryant and Gay’s _United States_, i. 103; and in Maury’s paper in _Harper’s Monthly_, xlii. (February, 1871). 2. Acquired from a friend in Laon in 1860 by M. Leroux, of the Administration de la Marine at Paris, and represents the geographical knowledge current at Lisbon, 1486-87, according to D’Avezac, who gives a projection of it in the _Bulletin de la Société de Géographie de Paris_, 4th series, viii. (1860). It is dated 1493. The first meridian runs through Madeira. 3. A small copper globe in the Lenox Library, in New York, which is said to be the earliest globe to show the American coast, and its date is fixed at about 1510-12, but by some as early as 1506-7. [Illustration: FROM THE MOLINEAUX GLOBE. This extract is from a tracing by Dr. De Costa. The legends on it are marked as follows: A, Nova Francia; B, Canada; C, Norumbega; D, India; E, Virginia, primum lustrata et Culta ab Anglis inpensis D. Gualteri de Ralegh Equitis Aurati, etc., annuente Elizabetha sev. Angliæ Regina.