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looked for one, even if he did not find it." The map is further remark- 

 able for its representation of the Bay of Fund}', which will soon be 

 discussed. 



More remarkably aberrent are several Italian maps of the second 

 half of the century, of which one by Agnese is here reproduced. 

 (Fig. 12). The St. Lawrence and Saguenay are made one stream, 

 emptying through the Miramichi •. The names are Cartier's and very 

 correctly given in an Italian form, though the topography is alto- 

 gether erroneous. Along the Atlantic coast are the names Anyoulesme, 

 paradis, real, refuge, recalling Gastaldi, as do other features. It seems 

 to me plain that this map was made by one who tried to fit the narratives 



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Yui. 11.— HOMEM, 1558. 

 From Kohl ; full size. 



of Cartier to the topography of an earlier map of the Gastaldi type. 

 Ramusio's edition in Italian of Cartier's narrative appeared in 1556, and 

 probably Cartier's maps were not accessible to the Italians, while that of 

 Gastaldi (the same as our fig. 0), was in the same volume. This combin- 

 ation character appears even more strongly in Zaltieri, of 1556, which is 

 even more like Gastaldi in topography, and of the same also are the Ber- 

 telli, of 1560, Martinez, of 1578, Gutierrez, of 1562, Porcacchi, 1572, and 

 some others. It reaches its extreme of distortion in the map of New 



1 Probably the po. S. croce on this map is that of Cartier near Quebec. The fact 

 that the Miramichi was in the next century called La Rivière Ste. Croix is only a 

 coincidence, and cannot at all be adduced as a reason why Agnese located the Quebec 

 po S. croce (Italian for Ste. Croix) at the Miramichi. 



