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great historic importance, and a copious literature has grown up upon it, 

 which the Canadian student may best trace through the works of 

 Dawson, and by help of the new Cabot Bibliography.' One theory of the 

 Cabot voyages holds that he circumnavigated the Gulf of St. Lawrence, 

 which, if true, would connect the subject more closely with New 

 Brunswick ; but it is all too uncertain and too remotely connected with 

 our present subject to require further notice here,^ 



Fig. 3. LA COSA, 1500. 

 From Kretschmer ; full size. 



The names on La Cosa do not certainly occur upon any later map^ 

 nor are any of them extant,^ nor does the topography reappear. While 

 La Cosa's map is, therefore, the tirst of this period, it by no means, 

 establishes a type, as do the leading maps of the succeeding periods. 



The Voyages of the Cortereals, Portuguese sailors sent out by the 

 King of Portugal, in 1500, 1501, with their representation upon the 

 maps of Canerio (1502), Eeinel (1505), and Euysch (1508) concern New- 

 foundland and Labrador rather than our own coasts. In 1521, Joam 

 Alvarez Fagundes, a Portuguese, was sent by the King of Poi'tugal 

 to this region, and is supposed to have explored the Grulf of St. 

 Lawrence,* but the map usually adduced as evidence of this voyage is- 

 purely of the Cartier type. But there can be little doubt that he visited 



J Cabot Bibliography. By George Parker Winship. Bulletin Providence Public 

 Library, June, 1897. 



-^ At least one etTort of no small interest has been made to apply Cabot's n.ame to 

 the region of which New Brunswick is a part. In 1814, .John Purdy, an eminent hydro- 

 grapher of England, published an excellent map of eastern Canada, under the title 

 " A Map of Cabotia " (see list of maps in Part III.), and in the notes he makes it 

 plain that he wished thus to honour the memory of Cabot. The name Cabot Strait has 

 recently been applied to the passage between Newfoundland and Cape Breton. 

 (Geogr. .Journ., .June, 1897, ()09). 



•' It was once suggested to me by a Canadian student that the Cavo de Yngla- 

 terra may be the original of Cape Breton (Britain) changed to its present form by 

 early French map-makers. Probably cartographical and other evidence could be 

 adduced to disprove this. 



* Harrisse, Discovery, 182. 



