IN NORTHERN MISTS 



proportion to the latitude as in Ptolemy. In some tract 

 like that included in the fourth part of the " Rymbegla " 

 [1780, p. 474] Clavus may have found that Bergen lay in 

 latitude 60° and so placed the town on the west coast of Norway 

 in this latitude according to his own scale (on the right-hand 

 side of the Nancy map, see p. 248). In relation to the south 

 coast of Norway, Bergen was thus brought ^^ farther south 



Scandinavia on the map of Europe in the " Medici Atlas " (of 



1351). The scales of latitude and longitude are here added 



from Ptolemy's maps. The network of compass-lines is 



omitted 



than "c. bergis" on the Medici map (above). Calculated 

 according to Ptolemy's scale of latitude (on the left-hand side 

 of the Nancy map), Bergen was consequently placed in Clavus's 

 text in 64°, while the southern point of Greenland is placed 

 in 63° 15',^ a difference in latitude of 45' (in the Vienna text 

 the difference is 35'), while in reality it is 38'; a remarkable 



the parallel for 63° passed through the southernmost part of Norway, cor- 

 responding to Ptolemy's Thule. In order better to agree with this (cf. the 

 left-hand scale of latitude of the Nancy map) the degrees of latitude on the 

 map above, ought therefore to be increased half a degree, and on the map, 

 p. 236, nearly a degree. 



1 On the Nancy map, the southern point of Greenland lies in 63° 30'; but as 

 we do not know how accurately this copy reproduces Clavus's original map, 

 it is safer to confine ourselves to Clavus's text. 

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