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In 1525 Estevan Groinez, a Portuguese in the service of tlîe King of 

 Spain, coasted this shore from North to South, and his explorations are 

 «hown on a chart of 1529 (Fig. 5), made by Ribero (or Ribeiro), a 

 Spaniard, and there is reason to believe they were shown yet more fully, 

 and perhaps correctly, upon a map by Chaves of 1536, now lost. The 

 topography and the series of names on Ribero's map are ditferent from 

 those of Maggiolo, and there is little connection between the two. It is 

 from this map of Ribero that the topography and names of this coast are 



TJERA DE EST£VA GOMEZ! 



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 Muct,oj a-rho\t^ A h-uch.5 bc\o^dt cfpanS JC ,>.ucJ^o: 



Fig. 5. RIBERO, 1529. TYPE. 

 From Kretschmer ; x ^. 



taken by neai'ly all of the maps of this and the next period — by all indeed 

 except a few Italian maps which follow Maggiolo — and hence, in reality, 

 this and not La Cosa's is the type map of the Atlantic Coast of 

 Canada until the time of Champlain. The entrance to the Grulf of St. 

 Lawrence is plain, but the Bay of Fundy does not appear, unless the 

 indentation at the word Golfo is meant for it, which is not improbable. 

 It is much easier to understand how Gomez, coasting from the North, 

 could miss the Bay of Fundy, or have mistaken it for a shallow cove, 

 than to conceive how Verrazano, coming from the South, could luive 

 missed it entirely. 



In 1527 .John Rut, an Englishman, visited this coast, but his voyage 

 seems to have produced no effect upon its cartography, though its 

 results elsewhere are shown upon Thome's map of the same year. 



From this time until after the opening of the next period, and in- 

 deed for long after, there were no other voyages of consequence to this 

 coast, nor any other mai)s of special importance. Indeed, so far as the 



' In writing this paper I have adopted the view of Kohl and others that the 

 great river filled with i.sland.s west of arrcifes on Ribero is the Penobscot. But I 

 am becoming convinced that it is really the Bay of Fundy, and shall in another 

 paper present tlie argument. 



