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distance west of Anticosti, and would show the region south and east of 

 the Magdalenes undefined, or as nearly as possible as in the older maps, 

 which showed this whole region as solid land. Precisely such a map we 

 have in that of Eotz (or Rose), (Fig. 7), a Frenchman in the service of 

 the English king, contained in a MS. work dated 1542. The entire 

 topography answei-s exactly to the narrative of Cartier's first voyage 

 without the slightest trace of influence of the second. The Magdalenes, 

 which may be recognized by comparison with the Desceliers map, to be 





Fig. 8.-HARLEY, (1536) 1542. 

 From Frowse ; full size. 



given later, are shown merged with the mainland to the south, and Anti- 

 costi is joined to the coast on the south.' If one will compare, moreover, 

 the exact lining of this map with the Desceliers map (Fig. 10), he has no 

 difficulty in identifying all of the localities upon our North Coast.- This 

 map of Rotz is then reall}^ the oldest known to us showing the voyages 

 of Cartier. Closely following it is a beautiful map, the "Harleyan " of 

 1542 ' (¥W. 8), which shows Cartier's second voyage in the distinctness 

 of Anticosti, and in the representation of the St. Lawrence Eiver, but it 

 still shows the Magdalenes fused with the coast to the south, suggesting 

 that this error was not cleared up until the third voyage in 1540. So 

 far as concei-ns our own North Shore, however, it corresponds on this 

 map so very closely to Cartier's narratives, that we can scarcely doubt 



1 And hence not " omitted by a simple lapsus " as Harrisse states (Jean et Sebas- 

 tien Cabot, 203.) 



2 Fully identified, with figure, these Trans., VII., ii., 2!). 



2 A Dieppe map of the school of Pierre Desceliers, but not by him. Harrisse, 

 Discovery, 647. 



