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
It will be observed that to the northwest the Zeno map[368] has been
made tributary, while one name, “Golfo quarré,” is not in the place
usually given to it, since it is generally the alternative name of the
Gulf of St. Lawrence. The nomenclature of the coast from Cape Breton
south follows the Spanish names; and though Virginia is recognized by
name, there is no indication of the new geography of that region.[369]
[Illustration: FROM WYTFLIET.]
De Bry in 1596 added little that was new; and much the same may be said
of the maps in the edition of Ptolemy published at Cologne in 1597, and
numbered 2, 29, 34, and 35.[370]
New France is also shown in the “Nova Francia et Canada, 1597,” which
is no. 18 of the series of maps in Wytfliet’s Continuation of Ptolemy.
Others in the same work show contiguous regions:—
No. 15. “Conibas regio cum vicinis gentibus,”—Hudson’s Bay and the
region south of it.
No. 17. “Norumbega et Virginia,”—from 37° to 47° north latitude.
No. 19. “Estotilandia et Laboratoris,”—Labrador and Greenland, mixed
with the Zeni geography.
[Illustration: QUADUS, 1600.]
The map by Mathias Quaden, or Quadus, in the _Geographisches Handbuch_,
was published at Cologne in 1600, bearing the title, “Novi orbis pars
borealis.” The northeastern parts seem to be based on Mercator and
Ortelius. A marginal note at “Corterealis” defines that navigator’s
explorations as extending north to the point of what is called
Estotilant. In its Lake Conibas it follows the 1593 map of Judæis.
* * * * *
In this enumeration of the maps showing the Gulf and River St.
Lawrence down to the close of the seventeenth century, by no means
all of the reduplications have been mentioned; but enough has been
indicated to trace the somewhat unstable development of hydrographical
knowledge in this part of North America. Most interesting, among the
maps of the latter part of the century which have been omitted, are,
perhaps, the _Erdglobus_ of Philip Apian (1576), given in Wieser,
_Magalhâes-Strasse_, p. 72; the mappemonde in Cellarius’ _Speculum
orbis terrarum_ (Antwerp, 1578); the map of the world in Apian’s
_Cosmographie augmentée, par Gemma Frison_ (Antwerp, 1581, 1584, and
the Dutch edition of 1598); the map of the world by A. Millo (1582),
as noted in the _British Museum Manuscripts_, no. 27,470; that in the
_Relationi universali di Giovanni Botero_, Venice (1595, 1597, 1598,
1603); the earliest English copperplate map in Broughton’s _Concent
of Scripture_ (1596); the _Caert-Thresoor_ of Langennes, Amsterdam,
1598; and, in addition, the early editions of the atlases of Mercator,
Hondius, Jannsen, and Conrad Loew, with the globes of Blaeuw.
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