[485] Gulielmi de Worcester Itineraria, ed. J. Nasmyth (Cantab., 1778), p. 223, 267. I take the quotation from Notes and Queries, Dec. 15, 1883, 6th series, viii. 475. The latter passage is quoted in full in Bristol, past and present, by Nicholls and Taylor (London, 1882), iii. 292. Cf. H. Harrisse’s C. Colomb., i. 317.
[486] Cal. State Papers, Spanish, i. p. 177.
[487] Irish Minstrelsy, or bardic remains of Ireland, etc., 2 vols. (London, 1831), i. 368.
[488] This is very nearly its position in the Arcano del Mare of Dudley, 1646 (Europe 28), where it is called “disabitata e incerta.”
[489] i. 369. O-Brazile, or the enchanted island, being a perfect relation of the late discovery and wonderful disenchantment of an island on the North [sic] of Ireland, etc. (London, 1675).
[490] John T. O’Flaherty, Sketch of the History and antiquities of the southern islands of Aran, etc. (Dublin, 1884, in Roy. Irish Acad. Trans., vol. xiv.)
[491] On Hy Brasil, a traditional island off the west coast of Ireland, plotted in a MS. map written by Le Sieur Tassin, etc., in the Journal of the Royal Geological Society of Ireland (1879-80), vol. xv. pt. 3, pp. 128-131, fac-simile of map.
[492] In an atlas issued 1866, I observe Mayda and Green Rock.
[493] Harrisse would put it in 1482. See Vol. II. p. 90.
[494] Also in his Bib. Amer. Vet., p. xvi.