[1391] Northwest Coast, vol. i. p. 123.
[1392] Cf. something of the sort in Dobbs’s map of 1744, given in Bancroft, Northw. Coast, i. 123.
[1393] Shelvocke says he accepted current views, unable to decide himself.
[1394] Reproduced in Bancroft, Northwest Coast, vol. i. p. 123.
[1395] It is in the Kohl Collection, and is sketched in Bancroft’s North Mexican States, vol. i. p. 463; Northwest Coast, vol. i. pp. 125, 126.
[1396] Bancroft (Northwest Coast, vol. i. pp. 126, 129) thinks his book more complete than any earlier one on the subject. As late as 1755 Hermann Moll, the English cartographer, kept the island in his map.
[1397] Bancroft (Northwest Coast, vol. i. pp. 127, 128) thinks that a theory, started in 1751 by Captain Salvador, and reasserted in 1774 by Captain Anza, that the Colorado sent off a branch which found its way to the sea above the peninsula, was the last flicker of the belief in the insularity of California.
[1398] Delisle was born in 1688 and died in 1747; Buache lived from 1700 to 1773. Other cartographical solutions of the same data are found in William Doyle’s Account of the British Dominions beyond the Atlantic (London, 1770), and in the Mémoires sur la situation des pays septentrionaux, by Samuel Éngel, published at Lausanne in 1765. Engel’s maps were repeated in a German translation of his book published in 1772, and in his Extraits raisonés des Voyages faits dans les parties septentrionales de l’Asie et de l’Amérique, also published at Lausanne in 1779.
[1399] Buache’s “Mer de l’ouest” was re-engraved in J. B. Laborde’s Mer du Sud (Paris, 1791), as well as a map of Maldonado’s explorations. Cf. Samuel Engel’s Extraits raisonés des Voyages faits dans les parties septentrionales (Lausanne, 1765 and 1779), and Dobbs’s Northwest Passage (1754).
[1400] Jefferys also published at this time (2d ed. in 1764) Voyages from Asia to America, for completing the discoveries of the Northwest Coast, with summary of voyages of the Russians in the Frozen sea, tr. from the high Dutch of S. Muller [should be G. F. Muller], with 3 maps: (1) Part of Japanese map [this is sketched in Bancroft, Northwest Coast, i. p. 130]. (2) Delisle and Buache’s fictitious map. (3) New Discoveries of Russians and French.