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Thome's standing sent a rough draft like this to the representative of his 

 sovereign if a copy of the Spanish official map would have suited the 

 purpose. 



Fig. 13.— Robert Thorne's Map, A.D. 1527. 



U.—The Map of WU- 



As this jnap is discussed with a detail amounting to tcdiousness in 

 the first paper of this series (E. S. C, Yol. XII., 1894), I may bo excused 

 from repeating what is there stated. Mr. Harrisse says of it : '^* '' The 

 " cartographical data, however, which served as a basis for these tabular 

 " explanations " (the legends on it) " were certainly furnished by Sebas- 

 " tian Cabot, or published with his assent, particularly as regards the 

 " configuration of the northeast coast of the American continent and the 

 " alleged landfall at Cape Breton." The legends, he says, were written 

 about 1544 by " one Dr. Grajales," the type in a pamphlet which he has 



