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It is also delineated in 1700 in the map of the Dutchman, Lugtenberg. The idea was not totally given up till Cook’s map of his explorations in 1777-1778 appeared, which was the first to give to the peninsula of Alaska and the Aleutian islands a delineation of approximate accuracy; and this was fifty years after Behring, in 1728, had mapped out the Asiatic shore of this region.
[1374] Amer. Antiq. Soc. Proc., October, 1873. and Memorial History of Boston, i. 59. Kohl’s Washington Collection has several draughts from the charts at Munich. An earlier edition (1630) of the Arcano del Mare is sometimes mentioned.
[1375] See Vols. III. and IV., index; George Adlard’s Amye Robsart and Leicester, 1870; Warwickshire Historical Collections; Dugdale’s Warwickshire, p. 166.
[1376] Vol. i. lib. ii. p. 19. The other maps are numbered xxxi., xxxii., and xxxiii. A second edition, “Corretta e accresciuta secondo l’originale des medesimo Duca, che si conserva nella libreria del Convento de Firenze della Pace,” appeared at Florence in 1661.
[1377] Sanson put it in his atlas made in 1667; Delisle rejected it in 1714; Bowen adhered to it in 1747.
[1378] It is worth while to note Virginia Farrer’s map of Virginia, given in Vol. III. p. 465, for the strange belief which with some people prevailed in England in 1651, that the Pacific coast was at the foot of the western slope of the Alleghanies,—a belief which was represented in 1625 by Master Briggs in Purchas (vol. iii. p. 852), where he speaks of the south sea “on the other side of the mountains beyond our falls, which openeth a free and fair passage to China.”
[1379] “Autore, N. I. Piscator.”
[1380] Born 1600; died 1667.