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on the north. We must not, however, attempt to interpret the geography 
in men’s minds in 1603 by the well-nigh perfect maps of 1900, but by 
the imperfect maps of that time. Turning to the maps of the end ‘of 
the sixteenth century, to those of Wytfliet 1597, Dee 1580, Hood 1572, 
the Molyneux Globe of 1592, and others of the time as they appear in 

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Map No. 4. To illustrate early boundaries. 
various reproductions, we find in all of them that, while 46° passes 
through Cape Breton, owing to a peculiar distortion of the coast in this 
region, the line of 40° runs nearly parallel with the coast of Maine and 
cuts the continent north of that “cap Arenas” which represents on 
these maps the modern Cape Cod. The limits 40°-46° therefore were 
by no means arbitrary, but were supposed to include a natural geogra- 


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