[286] In a sketch which the late M. d’Avezac made for the writer before the latter had personally examined the original manuscript, which bears the folio mark 184 instead of 187, “Laboureur” reads, as it should, “Norumbega.” We have sketches bearing the two numbers showing this difference, while also no. 184 does not show “Isla de Saint-Jean.”
[287] The Cosmographie says: “Passing about twenty leagues west-northwest along the coast, you will find an island, called St. Jean, in the centre of the district, and nearer to the Breton region than to Terra Nova. This entry to the Bretons is twelve leagues wide, and in 47° 30′ north. From St. Jean’s Island to Ascension [Assumption] Island, in the Canadian Sea, it is forty leagues across, northwest-by-west. St. Jean and Bryon and Bird Island are 47° north.” A little farther on he says: “Southeast of Cape Ratz [Race] there are two lost islands, which are called Isle St. Jean, D’Estevan,—lost because they consisted of sand.” He also mentions the Isle of St. Brandon, and “a large island called the Seven Cities, forming one large island, and there are many persons who have seen it as well as myself, and can testify; but I do not know how things look in the interior, for I did not land upon it. It is in 28° 30′ north latitude.”
[288] See on this globe, Verrazano the Explorer, p. 64; and the engraving of it, ante, p. 42.
[289] On the Nancy globe; see the Magazine of American History, vi. 183; and the sketch, ante, p. 81.
[290] Map in the British Museum, 25 × 15 inches. See post, p. 83.
[291] See sketch, post, p. 87.
[292] See post, p. 84.
[293] See a sketch of it, post, p. 85.
[294] The relation of the map to the Verrazano map, 1529, is shown in Verrazano the Explorer, p. 43, and on the composition map, p. 48. A fac-simile of Gastaldi’s map is given, post, p. 91.
[295] The atlas is about 12 × 18 inches, the maps, which are strongly Portuguese, being delicately drawn and washed with green, and elegantly colored. The title is Cosmographie universelle selon les navigateurs. Many of the names which we have examined appear to be very corrupt.