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and have been moved up and included in this extract to show how the 

 line is marked on the mai3 — the Portuguese to the east and the Spanish 

 to the west of the dividing line between them. The reader's attention 

 is called to the fact that the line cuts the coast far west of Cape Race 

 and west\\Tard of the islands on the south coast of Newfoundland. It 

 passes west of nearly the whole region of Baccallaos and just clears 

 what may be taken as Nova Scotia mid the point of Cape Breton. It 

 corresponds as nearly as possible to the meridian of G0° W. on our charts 

 which passes through Cabot Strait close to the island of St. Paul. 



Fig. 4 is an outline extract of the map by Nuno Garcia, or Fernan 

 Columbus. It is traced from Winsor's Narr. and Grit. History, Vol. 

 11, p. 43. In this map the opening between Cape Breton and New- 

 foundland is indicated, as it is also on earlier maps, and the line of de- 

 marcation passes through it% These two maps are conclusive evidence 

 that, on the Spanish official map, the division was close to the point of 

 Cape Breton and cut off all Newfoundl'and into the Portuguese demar- 

 cation. That then was the Spanish view of the question, and it is im- 

 portant to remember that the true longitude of the line has been shown 

 to be 45° 4U'. The longitude, therefore, on both these maps is 14° 20' 

 out of the truth ; so far as that part of the coast is concerned. 



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