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Fernando Columbus is buried in the cathedral, in vSeville, and 

 the resting place of his bones is covered by a tablet bearing an in- 

 scription, of which the following is a translation : 



" Here rests the most magnificent vSeiior Don Fernando Colon, 

 who applied and spent all his life and estate in adding to letters, and 

 collecting and perpetuating in his city all his books, of all the sciences 

 which he found in his time, and reducing them to four books. He 

 died in this city, on the 12th of July, 1539, at the age of fifty 

 years, nine months, and fourteen days. He was son of the valiant 

 and memorable Seiior Don Christopher Colon, the first admiral, who 

 discovered the Indies and the New World, in the lifetime of Their 

 Catholic Majesties, Don Ferdinand and Donna Isabella, of glorious 

 memory, on the nth of October, 1492, with three galleys and 

 ninety people, having sailed from the port of Palos on his voyage of 

 discovery, on the 3d of August previous, and returned to Castile 

 with victory, on the 7th of March the following year. He returned 

 afterward twice to people that which he had discovered. He died 

 at Valladolid on the 20th day of May, 1506, aged .... 



* Entreat the Lord for them." 



Beneath this, in a circle, is a globe, presenting the western and 

 part of the eastern hemisphere, surmounted by a pair of compasses. 

 Within the border of the circle is insoribed: 



"A Castilla y a Leon. 

 Mundo Nuevo dio Colon." 



In the Columbina Library, as it is called, at Seville, which for- 

 merly belonged to Fernando Columbus, are a number of books 

 which were carried by Christopher Columbus on his various voyages, 

 and contain copious marginal notes in his handwriting. These books, 

 in the order of their ages, are : 



First. A copy of the Historia Rerum Ubique Gestarum, by 

 Enea Silvio Piccolomini, afterwards Pope Pius 11. A small folio 

 volume printed at Coloniain the year 1477. 



vSecond. The astronomical and cosmographical treatise of Car- 

 dinal Pedro de Alliaco, entitled "Imago Mundi," a gothic edition in 

 folio, without date or imprint, but supposed to have been printed by 

 Juan de Westphalia, at Lovaina, between the 3'ears 1480 and 1483. 



Third. The Works of Marco Polo. Latin edition of 1484. 



Fourth. "Historia Naturale de C. Plinio Secondo Tradocta di 

 Lingua Latina in Fiorentina per Christophoro Landino Fiorentino al 

 Serenissim-o Ferdinando Re diNapoli." Published at Venice, Septem- 

 ber II, 1489. 



Fifth. "Alamach Perpetuus Cuius Radix est Annum 1473," by 

 Abraham Zacuth, astronomer to King Don Manuel of Portugal. 

 Printed in Leiria in 1496. It was this very book that Columbus used 



