[325]: Malte-Brun, Hist, de Geog., tom. i. lib. xvii.
[326]: Idem, Geog. Unirerselle, tom. xiv. Note sur la decouverte de l'Amerique.
[327]: Gosselin, Recherches sur la Geographic des Anciens, tom. i. p. 162, &c.
[328]: Memoirs de l'Acad. des Inscript., tom. xxvi.
[329]: Capmany, Questiones Criticas, Quest. 6.
[330]: Archives de Ind. en Sevilla.
[331]: Capmany, Queat. Crit.
[332]: The author of this work is indebted for this able examination of the route of Columbus to an officer of the navy of the United States, whose name he regrets the not being at liberty to mention. He has been greatly benefited, in various parts of this history, by nautical information from the same intelligent source.
[333]: Herrera, Hist. Ind., decad. i. lib. ix. cap. 10.
[334]: In the first chapter of Herrera's description of the Indies, appended to his history, is another scale of the Bahama islands, which corroborates the above. It begins at the opposite end, at the N. W., and runs down to the S.E. It is thought unnecessary to cite it particularly.