The Leardo Map of the World, 1452 or 1453 / In the Collections of the American Geographical Society

by John Kirtland Wright

337 y^a. de prenje: ?Insula Palola, Carignano, Piz. (Fischer, 141);=?

Rivers, Lake, Seacoast

338 The upper course of the Nile with the great lake and its tributaries rising in the Mountains of the Moon ([334]) corresponds essentially to CE (Kret., CE, 89-91); CE, however, shows a subterranean passage of the river W of Meroe. On ancient and medieval theories regarding the course of the Nile, see Simar, passim; Langenmaier, 47-48; Wright, Lore, 304-306. See also [312], [334].

339 The bay with the red, cross-shaped island is represented on CE by an island in the delta of the West-African river.

Desert

340 mare | arenoxe (Sandy Sea): On CE there are two legends indicating sandy areas in West Africa (Kret., CE, 96).

Edifices

(A) North of Nile-Senegal

341 R^o doga|n .(?): ?Organa, CA; Rey dOrgana, CE;=empire of Ghana or Kanem (La R., i, 136).

342 R^o.....(?): =?