[8. B. DAWSOK] 



THE LINES OP DEMARCATION 



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The second point of our inquiry, namely, where upon our coast 

 did those old navigators think that the line touched ? cannot be 

 found mathematically, for it would seem from these calculations on 

 "spheres" that the same result is reached from widely different data. 

 That method is plainly inapplicable. It is necessary, therefore, to 

 turn to the maps of the period — those maps which, mathematically 

 measured, will mislead the student ; but which will yield valuable in- 

 formation to whoever will read them in the light of their own age. 

 The topogTaphical features upon them will sliow within a very small 

 distance the place where the line of Tordesillas touched our coast — 

 in the current opinion of the period when the people were alive who 

 had the practical settlement of it. 



The Spanish view is set forth in two maps, both copied from the 

 official map of Spain. One is by Diego Eibeiro and is dated A.D. 1529, 

 the other is dated A.D. 1527, and has been ascribed to Fernan Columbus, 

 but Mr. Harrisse thinks it to be the work of Nuno Garcia de Toreno. 

 Mr. Harrisse has the greater probability on his side ; but it makes little 

 difference, since both Eibeiro and Garcia were celebrated pilots and 

 were among the experts on behalf of Spain at the Badajoz conference. 

 Both of them were distinguished chart makers and Eibeiro was one 

 of the commissioners for compiling and supervising the standard map — 

 (Padron Eeal). Fig. 3 is an extract from the well known map at 

 Weimar made by him. The two flags are on the South American coast 





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Fig. 4. Nunc Garcia, Spanish, A. D. 1527. 



