Narrative and Critical History of America, Vol. 4 (of 8): French Explorations and Settlements in North America and Those of the Portuguese, Dutch, and Swedes 1500-1700
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Narrative and Critical History of America, Vol. 4 (of 8): French Explorations and Settlements in North America and Those of the Portuguese, Dutch, and Swedes 1500-1700
America -- Discovery and exploration; America -- History; United States -- History
The atlas of Baptista Agnese of 1564, preserved in the British
Museum,[348] and another of his of the same date in the Biblioteca
Marciana, still retain some of the features of his earlier portolanos.
He always identifies Greenland with Baccalaos, and still represents
Newfoundland as a part of the main. Harrisse holds that he had not
advanced beyond the Toreno (Venice) map of 1534, and in 1564 knew
little more of the Newfoundland region than was known to Ribero and
Chaves thirty-five years earlier.
[Illustration: HOMEM, 1558.
This sketch follows a reproduction in Kohl’s _Discovery of Maine_, p.
377; cf. _British Museum Catalogue of Manuscript Maps_ (1844), i. 27;
Harrisse, _Cabots_, p. 243. Various atlases of Homem are preserved in
Europe. This 1558 map (giving both Americas) is included in Kohl’s
Collection at Washington, as well as another map of 1568, following a
manuscript preserved in the Royal Library at Dresden, purporting to
have been made by “Diegus Cosmographus” at Venice. Kohl thinks him the
Diego Homem of the 1558 map, which the 1568 map closely resembles,
though it makes the northern coast of America more perfect than in the
earlier draft.]
The Catalogue of the King’s maps in the British Museum puts under 1562
a map entitled, _Universale descrittione di tutta la terra cognosciuta
da Paulo di Forlani_.
[Illustration: RUSCELLI, 1561.
A sketch of his _Tierra Nueva_. The key is as follows: 1. Lacadia.
2. Angouleme. 3. Flora. 4. Le Paradis. 5. P. Real. 6. Brisa I. 7.
Tierra de los Breton. 8. C. Breton. 9. Breston. 10. C. de Ras. 11. C.
de Spoir. 12. Buena Vista. 13. Monte de Trigo. 14. Das Chasteaulx.
15. Terra Nova. 16. C. Hermoso. 17. S. Juan. 18. Isola de Demoni. 19.
Orbellanda. 20. Y. Verde. 21. Maida.
There are reproductions of this map in Kohl’s _Discovery of Maine_,
p. 233, and Lelewel, _Géographie du Moyen-Age_, p. 170; cf. Harrisse,
_Cabots_, p. 237; and his _Notes, pour servir à l’histoire ... de la
Nouvelle France_, etc., no. 294.]
Thomassy,[349] however, cites it as published in Venice in 1565, and
says it strongly resembles Gastaldi’s map, and is, perhaps, the same
one credited to Forlani under 1570, as showing the recent discoveries
in Canada. It is contained in the so-called Roman atlas of Lafreri,
_Tavole moderne di geografia_, Rome and Venice, 1554-1572.[350]
[Illustration: ZALTIERI, 1566.]
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