42 DISCOVERIES OF 1500. 



This great country discovered by Cortereal is 

 evidently that which at present is known under 

 the name of Labrador, or rather Lavrador — a 

 Portugueze word which characterises the inha- 

 bitants. 



As a further proof that this is the fact, there 

 is a map in an old edition of Ptolemy, published 

 in Rome in 1508, which gives to the land of 

 Lavrador the name of " Corterealis," and on it is 

 laid down the island of Demonios (Demons) on 

 account of the trouble which the ships had there 

 experienced. 



Sebastian Munster, in his Chorography, printed 

 for the first time in Basle in 1544, gives to New- 

 foundland itself (Terra Nova) the name of 

 Cortereal, and the celebrated Abraham Ortelius 

 not only calls the land of Lavrador, Cortereal^ 

 but he marks the Rio Nevado, and Bahia da Serra, 

 close to the entrance of the strait now named 

 Hudson's; and he places nearly in the middle of 

 it, a river which he calls Rio da Tormenta, (Storm 

 River,) to which succeeds another bay called 

 Bahia das Medas (Rick Bay.) It does not how- 

 ever follow that, because all these names are Por- 

 tugueze, they must have first been given by Caspar 

 Cortereal, nor that he actually entered Hudson's 

 Bay, though the probability is in favour of such a 

 supposition, if we take into consideration all the 

 collateral circumstances of the narrative. 



The same doubt howxver does not occur in 



