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a nomenclature could have appeared tirst on a sea chart of no great 

 l^rominence, but their origin remains one of the greatest puzzles of our 

 -<;artography. One is tempted to believe the}' were invented by some 

 map-maker. But they would not be of any great im])ortance were it not 

 for their intluence upon the important map of J\[oll of 1715, who follows 

 them closely, which, in itself, is indication that they had already appeared 

 on some map more important than a single obscure chart. They occur, 

 also, in a map in Senex's Atlas of 1721. Connected with it in some way 

 is the apocryphal Denys map of 150(3, of which a copy exists in the 

 Libraiy of Parliament at Ottawa, for this has the same E. Sauveur and 

 the same Cap a la Chaudiei-e (or Chaudire). 



CiiaodireB 



P./3asfues 



Fig. 21».— ENGLISH PILOT, 1702 (>.). 

 From original ; x ^. 



Later in the century, and towards its close, appeared many maps bj- 

 Sanson, DuVal, Berry, laillot, De Fer, Le Cordier, Wells and others, most 

 -of which I have seen, but they mark no advance over the earlier ones, 

 and usually are much inferior to them \ 



In this period, also, the great atlases became prominent, though they 

 are not, of course, contined to it. They would require a lifetime for their 

 full study, for they are very confusing ; not only is there a perfect deluge of 

 them in man^^ editions, variously mixed, with the same plates variously 

 •dated,' but they are simply variations on the old themes, with little or 



1 On these see Winsor, America, IV., 390. 

 -On thes? see earlier, Part I, Section 4. 



