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SAMUEL EDWAED DAWSON ON THE 



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official map ofRibero made at Seville in 1629 does not show an island near Cape Bi'eton but 

 no sign of the gulf of St. Lawrence appears upon it. 



In the same j'ear 1529, was made the celebrated mappemonde of Hieronimus de 

 Verrazano now in the Propaganda at Rome. It emljodies the claims based upon his 

 brother's voyage in 1523 and the whole coast of îfew England, which Cabot iu 1498 had 

 sailed along, is marked with French flags. The southern opening into the gulf is widened 

 and named G. di St. Joanne and, iu this single instance, north of the east point of Cape 



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Verrazano, A.D. 1529. 



Breton is marked Isla de Sancto Joanni, but still there are no signs of any knowledge of the 

 gulf of St. Lawrence. The Ptolemy of 1530 Basle Ed., shows Caj^e Breton with its satellite 

 still in the Atlantic but the coast is a continuous line ; nor does the least sign of the gulf 

 appear upon the globe of Orontius Finseus in 1531. 



