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Atlantic coast is concerned, this period merges without break into the 

 next, and there is no real improvement over J^ibero in the carto 

 graphy until near the end of the century, and no great improvement 

 until the time of Champlain, as I shall presently demonstrate. The 

 region was no doubt constantly visited by fishermen and ti-aders, 

 vai'ious references to whom occur in early works, but they did not 

 influence cartography Numerous world-maps of the time are extant 

 showing this region upon a small scale, but they do not concern our 

 present subject. 



Belonging to this period are several aberrent types, of which the 

 most important to us is that of Gastaldi. (Fig C.) Thoiigh usually 

 dated 155(), because occurring in a book of that year,' it really belongs 



Fui. 6.-GASTALDI (1533), 1.556. 

 From Winsor ; x ^. 



much earlier, probably about 1533, since it shows not the slightest trace 

 of Cartiers voyages, though the Gulf of St. Lawrence is clearly represented- 

 The Gulf of St. Lawrence had been shown as an indentation as early as 

 on Keinel of 1505,'^ and upon several later, notably on Maggiolo, 1527, 

 and Yiegas, 1534, and on these are given many names which later 



1 Discussion in Rugc, 56. 



-The claim of Winsor tliat the entire gulf is shown on the Ptolemy of 1511 is con- 

 troverted by Bisho]) Howley (these Trans. XII., ii., 175). 



