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Vista, hermoso, and others. Now, these other names occur mostly 

 upon two earlier maps from which Gastaldi evidently copied them, 

 viz.: that of Verrazano of 1529, and that of Maggiolo of 1527 (the 

 former in De Costa's Verrazano the Navigator, and the latter in these 

 Transactions, III, 1897, ii, 331), but Larcadia occurs upon neither. 

 Therefore, Gastaldi either interpolated Larcadia, or it is a misprint 

 of some name on the earlier maps, which by the way contained far 

 more names than Gastaldi, and in a very different order. Upon the 

 Maggiolo map there is nothing between the names Anguileme and 

 S. Maria, but far to the eastward occurs a place lorto delarcelay, (or 

 de racday in Stevenson's recent photographic reproduction), while on 

 the Verrazano map occurs between Angolesme and Santa M, an 

 obscure word which has been read by De Costa as lanprunela. While 

 the erroneous transcription of one of these words or some other to 

 the Larcadia of Gastaldi is possible, it is also equally probable that 

 Gastaldi himself added the word, to occupy a convenient space, in 

 recollection of Arcadia in Greece, of happy associations, under the 

 suggestion of the other words of fortunate omen. Flora, Paradis, and 

 Hermoso, the L being the article, as in his Le Paradis. Here, however, 

 I must leave the subject, with only this further remark, that I am 

 sure the matter can be solved by intensive comparative investigation. 



