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
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Dr. Kohl also reproduces it in part in his _Discovery of Maine_,
p. 174, where he dates it 1504. His two copies vary, in that the
engraved one seems to make the east and west coast-line from “Cabo
de Conception” the determinate one, while his manuscript copy gives
the completed character to the other line. It is held to record the
results of Cortereal’s voyage, and shows in Greenland a more correct
outline than any earlier chart. The other coast seems to be Labrador
and Newfoundland run into one. Peschel (_Geschichte des Zeitalters der
Entdeckungen_, p. 331) puts the date 1502 or 1503. The present Cape
Freels, on the Newfoundland coast, is thought to be a corruption of
“Frey Luis,”—here given to an island. (Cf. Kunstmann, _Die Entdeckung
Amerikas_, pp. 69, 128.) Harrisse (_Cabots_, p. 161) speaks of
Kunstmann’s referring it to “Salvat de Pilestrina,” and thinks that
the author may be “Salvat[ore] de Palastrina” of Majorca. Lelewel also
gives in his _Géographie du Moyen-Âge_ (plate 43) a map of importance
in this connection, which he dates 1501-1504, and which seems to be
very like a combination of the two Ptolemy maps of 1513. The Reinel
Chart of 1505 has been referred to in the preceding text.[137]
The _Catalogue_ of the Library of Parliament (Canada), 1858, p.
1614, gives what purports to be a copy of a “Carte de l’embouchure
du St. Laurent faite et dressée sur une écorce de bois de Vouleau,
envoyée du Canada par Jehan Denys, 1508.” Shea also mentions it in
his _Charlevoix_, i. 106, with a reference to Ramusio’s third volume.
Mr. Ben: Perley Poore, in his _Documents collected in France_, in the
Massachusetts Archives, says he searched for the original of this
map at Honfleur without success. Harrisse, _Cabots_, p. 250, says no
such map is to be found in the Paris Archives; and a tracing being
supplied from Canada, he pronounces it “absolument apocryphe,” with a
nomenclature of the last century. Bancroft (_United States_, edition of
1883, i. 14) still, however, acknowledges a map of Denys of this date.
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