[131] For 1855, p. 374; and for 1856, pp. 17, 18, 319-324.
[132] He later published in the Zeitschrift für allgemeine Erdkunde, neue Folge, vol. xv., an account of discovery in the Gulf of Mexico, 1492-1543.
[133] This was earlier in the possession of Professor Henry, of the Smithsonian Institution, in whose Report for 1856 Dr. Kohl printed a plan for a Cartographical Depot, in connection with the Government. Cf. also American Antiquarian Society’s Proceedings, October, 1867; April, 1869; April, 1872.
[134] He had already, in 1861, published a Geschichte der Entdeckungs Amerikas,—a popular account which was translated by R. R. Noel as a Popular History of the Discovery of America, and published in London in 1862.
[135] Vol. III. p. 8.
[136] The Waldseemüller (Ptolemy) map of 1513, called sometimes “The Admiral’s map,” and known to have been engraved several years earlier, is believed to have been on sale in 1507 (Lelewel, ii. 143), and to have been really drawn in 1501-1504. La Cosa is said to have complained of Portuguese explorations in that neighborhood in 1503. [This new Cantino map has since been described in Vol. II.]
[137] Cf. also Harrisse’s Cabots, pp. 141, 162; Kohl, Discovery of Maine, p. 177; J. A. Schmeller’s “Ueber einige ältere handschriftliche Seekarten” in the Abhandlungen der Akademie der Wissenschaften, iv. 247.
[138] Vol. II.
[139] Vol. III. p. 212.
[140] Ibid. p. 13.