In the same year (1545) a map of America appeared in the well-known nautical handbook of the Spaniards, the _Arte de navegar_ of Pedro de Medina, which was repeated in his _Libro de grandezas y cosas memorables de España_ of 1549. A sketch of this part of the coast is annexed, and it will be seen that it betrays no adequate conception of what Cartier had accomplished. [Illustration: ROTZ, 1542 (_Western Hemisphere_).] To 1546 we may now assign the French map sometimes cited as that of the Dauphin, and sometimes as of Henri II. It is but a few years since Mr. Major first deciphered the legend: “Faictes a Arques par Pierre Desceliers, presb^r, 1546.” Jomard, who gives a fac-simile of it, places it about the middle of the century;[327] D’Avezac put it under 1542;[328] Kohl thought it was finished in 1543.[329] [Illustration: FROM THE CABOT MAPPEMONDE, 1544.] The annexed sketch will show that the Cartier discoveries are clearly recognized. The Spanish names along the coast seem to indicate that the maker used Spanish charts; and probably in part such as are not now known to exist.[330] [Illustration: PART OF MÜNSTER’S MAP OF 1545. This sketch is reduced from a copy in Harvard College Library. This map was re-engraved in the edition of _Ptolemy_ (1552), and on this last plate the names of “Islandia” and “Bacalhos” are omitted, and “Thyle” becomes “Island.” A different engraving is also found in Münster’s _Cosmographia_ (1554). Harrisse (nos. 188, 189) refers to unpublished maps of this coast of about this date, which are preserved in the Musée Correr, and in the Biblioteca Marciana at Venice, and to accounts of these and others in Matkovic’s _Schiffer-Karten in den Bibliotheken zu Venedig_, 1863, and in Berchet’s _Portolani esistenti nelle principali biblioteche_ _di Venetia_, 1866.] [Illustration: FROM MEDINA, 1545. This is sketched from the Harvard College copy. The map is repeated in the Seville edition of 1563,—the first edition (1545) having appeared at Valladolid. The _Libro_, etc., is also in Harvard College Library.] A map preserved in the British Museum belongs to this period. That library acquired it in 1790, and its Catalogue fixes it before 1536; but Harrisse, because it does not give the Saguenay, which Cartier explored in his third voyage, places it after October, 1546. Harrisse thinks it is based on Portuguese sources, with knowledge also of Cartier’s discoveries.[331] Dr. Kohl, in his Washington Collection, has included a map by Joannes Freire, of which a sketch is annexed. It belonged to a manuscript portolano when Kohl copied it, in the possession of Santarem, which is described by Harrisse in his _Cabots_ (p. 220). Freire was a Portuguese map-maker, who seems to have used Spanish and French sources, besides those of his own countrymen.