108 SAMUEL EDWAED DAWSON ON THE 



NOTES AND KEFERENCES. 



1. Harrisge — Discovery of North America, p. 185. 



2. These propositions are abundantl}- established, mainly on docainentary evidence, by Harrisse — Jean et 

 Séhaitien Cahot and Discovery of America, an 1 by Deane in Hint, and Crit. History of America, vol. III. ; as well 

 as by many other writers in books and periodicals who treat of some or all of tliese questions. 



3. Discourse of the anonymous guest at the house of Frascator. Ramusio — Navigazioni el Viaggi, vol. I., 

 fol. 374 D, 3rd éd., Venice, 1653 ; cited and translated by the chief writers upon this subject. 



4. Those who hold that the landfall was in Newfoundland generally place it at Cape Bonavista, and the island 

 of Baccalieu, not far off, they maintain by its name to be a further identification with the place called Baccalaos. 

 This island would then be the island of St. John, discovered the same day. Foster has no doubt about it 

 Voyages and Discoveries to the North, London, 1786. See also Murray Discoveries and Travels in North America, Lon- 

 don, 1829 ; and, in fact, all the older writers. Among the later writers who have held that view are Suite, Histoire 

 des Canadiens; the Right Rev. Dr. Howley, Mag. of American History, Oct., 1S91, and it is often met with in popu- 

 lar works. 



5. A great number of names of weight are found in favour of Labrador. Among them are Kohl, Biddle, 

 Humboldt, Harrisse in his last work. Discovery of America, the Abbé Ferland and Garneau. 



6. The map of 1544 had not been discovered when Biddle wrote. It had a great effect in changing the set of 

 opinion towards Cape Breton and, by a misreading of the configuration upon the map. Cape North was taken to 

 be the indicated landfall. Harrisse in 1882 (Jean et Sébastie^i Cabol) with more reason advocated Cape Percy ; but 

 he changed his mind ten years later in his last book. Discovery of America, 1892. Dr. Bourinot (Cape Breton and 

 its Memorials), while he follows the general current and inclines to the opinion that Cape North was the landfall, 

 does so on the authority of the map of 1544. He, however, alone of all the writers on the question, has hitherto 

 recognized the strong claims of Cape Breton and the ccnformity of Scatari island with the required conditions. 

 He was not examining this special question and while yielding to tlie current opinion his local knowledge 

 prevented liim from accepting it as proved. 



I have not found Mr. Eben Horsford's arguments for Salem Neck sufficiently strong to lead me to consider his 

 theory separately. 



7. Captain Richard Whitbourne — A Relation of the New-found-land, etc., etc., London, 1622. 



8. Champlain — Voyages, 1632; ed. Laverdière, p. 1312, Quebec, 1870. 



9. In appendix to Kohl Doc. History of Maine, and in his writings generally. 



10. Transactions of Royal Society of Canada, vol. IX., 1891. 



11. It would be a small matter if this error were found only in the railway hand-books; but Deane, the 

 Abbé Beaudoin, Brevoort, Harrisse and numerous other authors of eminence maintain tliis view. 



12. Barrett — History and Antiquities of Bristol; Markham — Hakluyt Soc. Vol. for 1893, p. xlv. ; Letter of 

 Raimondo di Soncino, Dec. 18, 1497. 



13. Despatches from Dr. de Puebla, July 28, 1498, and Pedro de Ayala, July 25, 1498, to the Catholic sove- 

 reigns; Gomara Historia. 



14. Letters patent for both voyages. See also Biddle, page 86. 



15. Letter of Lorenzo Pasqualigo, Aug. 23, 1497. 



16. Despatch of Pedro de Ayala, July 25, 1498. 



17. Letter of Raimondo di Soncino to the Duke of Milan, Dec. 18, 1497. 



18. Peter Martyr (1516), Dec. III. Bk. 6. 



19. Gomara — Historia (1552). 



20. Peter Martyr, Gomara, Ramusio, passim. 



