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Pedro Reinel, A.D. 1.505 (from Kohl). 



Atlantic ocean, at the cape of Cape Breton "^ — the cam descubicrto of La Cosa. All La Cosa's 

 names are omitted. This map of Reinel is A^ery accurately drawn and is evidently leased on 

 direct and original knowledge. The island he lays down is not of the conventional shape 

 hnt triangular like Scatari. We shall find the triangular island he placed at 46 degrees will 



persist there. It may not retain its correct shape. 

 It may move a little further out or may deviate 

 somewhat from the true latitude ; but always we 

 shall find it, with or without its name, in the ocean 

 opposite — ex adverso — the easternmost point of Cape 

 Breton. We shall find, for a long time, subsequent 

 maps not so accurate, but for forty years upon the 

 majority of maps an island, which when named will 

 1- ""'y™™°cl'iforai-sMTp'! °" '' ''■""^'' '"''"' ^e Called the island of S. Johan, Joa, Joha," Joam, 

 2. Outline of SiuiLjohafromKretsehmeron a will be found to attend Upon that point of land. 



larger scale than Kohl s facsimile. _ 



The straits will be closed up north and south and 

 Cape Breton and îfewfbundland will be welded firmly to the mainland ; but St. John's 

 island will remain in the ocean where Cabot found it, until, in the map of 1544:, some one, 

 availing himself of the information upon the French maps, attached that name to the Mag- 

 dalen group which Cartier had discovered in 1534; not to Prince Edward island as of late 

 commonly supposed. 



Harrisse in discussing this question (throughout his work on the Cabots) is perplexed by 

 his thcorj', based on the erroneous reading of the map of 1544, that Prince Edward is the 

 island of St. John ; and asks how it is possible, in that case, that j^ewfoundlaiid should for 



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