[563] Cf. Brunet, ii. 317; Ternaux, no. 10.
[564] Bibl. Amer. Vet., no. 46; Additions, no. 24.
[565] Catalogue, i. 29. It was Ternaux’s copy, no. 10.
[566] Bibl. Amer. Vet., Additions, no. 25; Leclerc, no. 600 (100 francs); D’Avezac, Waltzemüller, p. 58.
[567] Cf. D’Avezac, Waltzemüller, p. 111, and Orozco y Berra’s Cartografia Mexicana (Mexico, 1871), p. 19.
[568] How Europe, which on a modern map would seem to be but one continent with Asia, became one of three great continents known to the ancients, is manifest from the world as it was conceived by Eratosthenes in the third century. In his map the Caspian Sea was a gulf indented from the Northern Ocean, so that only a small land-connection existed between Asia and Europe, spanned by the Caucasus Mountains, with the Euxine on the west and the Caspian on the east; just as the isthmus at the head of the Arabian Gulf also joined Libya, or Africa, to Asia. Cf. Bunbury’s History of Ancient Geography, i. 660.
[569] Humboldt, Examen critique, v. 182; but Varnhagen thinks Humboldt was mistaken so far as Vespucius was concerned.
[570] As early as 1519, for instance, by Enciso in his Suma de geographia.
[571] Examen critique, i. 181; v. 182.
[572] Suggested by Pizarro y Orellano in 1639; cf. Navarrete, French tr., ii. 282.