In the map of 1653, made by De la Martinière, who was of the Danish expedition to the north, Greenland was made to connect with Northern Asia by way of the North pole.[784] Nordenskjöld calls him the Münchhausen of the northeast voyagers; and by his own passage in the “Vega,” along the northern verge of Europe, from one ocean to the other, the Swedish navigator has of recent years proved for the first time that Greenland has no such connection. It yet remains to be proved that there is no connection to the north with at least the group of islands that are the arctic outlyers of the American continent.
GREENLAND.
Extracted from the “Carte de Grœnland” in Isaac de la Peyrère’s Relation du Groenland (Paris, 1647). Cf. Winsor’s Kohl Maps, no. 122.
CHAPTER III.
MEXICO AND CENTRAL AMERICA.
BY JUSTIN WINSOR.