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k.—The Rotz' Map, 1542. 



The first map that I have been able to find, which shows certain traces of Cartier's 

 voyages, is that by John Rotz, dated 1542.' It is also the only map known to me which 

 shows his first voyage with no trace of the later ones. I have not been able to find any 

 complete reproduction of this map, the original of which occurs in a " Boke of Idrography 

 . . . by Johne Rotz," preserved in the British museum. The annexed sketch is coj)ied 

 from that in Wiusor's " America," Vol. IV, p. 83." No names are attached to this map and 

 De Costa says ' they are omitted on the Grulf and River St. Lawrence. Only the western 

 portion of the gulf is given in Winsor's sketch, but Harrisse ^ says some French names are 

 placed on the east of Newfoundland. The figures and explanations are entirely my own. 

 I need hardly mention that one cannot follow the explanations of these maps without a 

 good modern map of the Gulf before him. 



Fig. 1.— Map of John Rotz, 1542. 



I shall omit, until a little later, a discussion of localities Nos. 1, 2, -3, 4, merely saying 

 in passing that I consider No. 1 to be Bird Islands ; 2, Bryon Island ; 3, the north-west coast 

 of the largest of the Magdalenes ; 4, Isle AUezay (Deadman's Island). It will be remem- 

 bered that Cartier sailed from the Magdalenes to the west, i.e., magnetic west, which would 

 be south of true west. There he entered the River of Boats (Richmond Bay), 5, to the north 

 of which was Cape Orleans (Cape Kildare), 6, north of which again was Cape of the 

 Savages (North Point), 1 — all of these places being on Prince Edward Island."' He then 

 coasted along the north-west of Prince Edward Island, and being in the head of North- 

 umberland Strait, thought himself in a bay, 8, the Bay of St. Lunario. North of this was 



' Harrisse (Jean et Sébastien Cabot, par Henry Harrisse, Paris, 1882), pp. 197-200, mentions a " Mappemonde 

 Harleyenne," of about 1542, from which or from the prototype of which Rotz copied the Newfoundland coast. I 

 have not been able to find a copy of the map (which is preserved in the British Museum in manuscript), but 

 Harrisse's description would lead me to think it contains little that is different from that of Rotz. Harrisse 

 considers it earlier than the latter, and says of it " cette belle carte, la plus rapprochée, ce semble, des découvertes 

 accomplies par Jacques Cartier," and again, " Le golfe et le fleuve Saint Laurent, la péninsule Gaspésienne, 

 la baie des Chaleurs, présentent des contours très exacts pour l'époque.'' 



- For further description of this map see America, iv. 82, also Harrisse, op. cit., pp. 201-204. 



' America, iv. 76. * Jean et Sébastien Cabot, p. 203. 



^ For details see preceding pages 18, 19, or take subsequent p. 57, or the writer's paper in these Transactions, 

 1887, ii. 121-136. 



