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the south coast of Newfoundland. In 152-4 Giovanni da Verrazano, an 

 Italian in the service of the King of France, explored the coast from 

 about 34° N. to Newfoundland. His V03'age is shown upon the map of 

 the Italian Maggiolo of 1527 (Fig. 4) and also upon that of his brother, 

 Hieron3'mus Verrazano.' This map of Maggiolo is of some importance^ 

 to our present subject ; it is the most detailed which had up to that time 

 a])peared, and it gives for the first time some names which for a short 

 time persisted, though they soon entirely vanished. There is on it no 



Fig. 4. MAGGIOLO, 1527 

 From Kretschmer ; x J. 



trace of the Bay of Fundy, but the indentation to the west of C. Easso 

 (Cape Race), is undoubtedly the southern entrance to the Gulf of St. 

 Lawrence, which, however, had appeared upon earlier maps, as eai-ly as 

 that of Reinel, 1505. Cape Cod is probably near Armelrnes. This is the 

 first map after La Cosa's to show the coast unbroken from Florida to Nova 

 Scotia, for all others of earlier date had represented these explored portions 

 as islands separated by a sea of greater or less extent. Why Verrazano, 

 coasting from South to North, missed the entrance to the Bay of Fundy, 

 we have no idea, and we can only surmise that he, like other navigators 

 since his time, was deceived by fog-banks, which filled the bay, making 

 it seem like land.^ 



1 A copy in Horsford, Discovery of America by Nortlnnen, 40. For other refer- 

 ences, see Ruge, nl. 



"^ See earlier, l'art I, Section 4. 



