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SAMUEL EDWAEI) DAWSON ON THE 



Again, it has been shown by Ganong and Pope that the only islands discoverecl by Cartier, 

 as islands, were (what were afterwards called) the great Mag(hden and its satellites. Tliese 

 must, therefore, tirst be found upon any map before we can commence to look for Frince 

 Edward island; but, when the Magdalen group is abstracted, no other island is left, either 

 on Cabot's or on any other map, until Champlain's large map of 1632. 



Again, Michael Lok's map of 1582, in Hakluyt's "Divers Voyages," illustrates the 



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Michael Loks Map, A.D. ir>.S2. 



same thesis. It is given as based on Verrazano's map, but the information current at the 

 time is added, for Ilochelaga and Saguenay are laid down, and, what is beyond question, the 

 great Magdalen (or Eamea) is shown in its proper place. This map reveals the information 

 current among merchants. It must be lield to indicate in a general way the features of the 

 gulf as laid down on the map of Clement Adams which Hakluyt saw. Upon it at Cape 

 Breton is marked J. Gabot, 1497, and off Cape Breton is marked the island of St. John, 

 near where it has been shown to have been on the long series of maps we have been following. 

 Again — in a few copies (twelve in all) of the second edition of Hakluyt's " Principal 

 Navigations," published 1598-1600 — in three volumes folio, is a map celebrated by having 

 been identified as the map alluded to b}- Shakespeare (Twelfth Xight, Act III., Sc. 2) as the 

 " new map with the augmentation of the Indies." This map bears the following inscription 

 upon the northern part of Labrador (near an opening in the continent marked " a furious 

 overfall," intended for Hudson's strait) : " This land was discovered l)y John and Sebastian 

 " Cabot for King Heni-y VIL, 1497." In this respect the map favours the theory of a land- 

 fall far north at Labrador by the two Cabots in 1497, and not in 1498, thus contradicting 

 Lok's map, which places the landfall at Cajje Breton by the inscription there, " John 

 Gabot, 1497." The cpiestion of the landfall of the first voyage has been argued in the first 



