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Sanskrit, and to mean the nether region. The occurrence 

 of tlie inscription " Mare magellanicum " on Fine's map 

 shows that he was in part iniiuenced by tlie voyage of 

 Magehan in his dehneation of the Terra Australis. Mercator 

 followed the incorrect indication given in the Novus Orhis, 

 and charted the Psittacorum Regio in about 42^ S., and 

 with a longitudinal extension from 30° to 70° E, of Bona- 

 vista. This tract bears the inscription " Psittacorum Regio 

 sic a Lusitanis hue hbegio vento appulsis cum Callicutum 

 peterent appellata propter earum avium multitudinem. Porro 

 cum hujus terrae littus ad 2000 miliarum prosequuti essent 

 necdum tamen fineni invenerunt inde Australem continentem 

 attigisse indubitatum est." 



It was probably due in the main to the personal character 

 and ambition of Charles VIII. and Louis XII. that France 

 expended her energies so exclusively in feudal wars at the 

 period of the great oceanic discoveries. With the accession 

 of Francis I. and the regency of Louisa of Savoy com- 

 mences an awakening of interest in these discoveries, which 

 eventually resulted in active participation. In 1516 the 

 Paesi nouamente retrouati ap])eared in a French translation. 

 In 1523 or 1524 Pigafetta presented to the Regent a copy 

 of his book, that namely which described the voyage of 

 Magellan, and a French abridgment of the work by Jacques 

 Fabre apjieared shortly afterwards at the Regent's request. 

 In 1532 Peter Martyr's first three decades were abridged 

 and published in French, with a dedication to Charles Due 

 d'Angouleme, a son of Francis I. ; and abridgments of the 

 fourth decade and of the second and third letter of Cortes 

 were dedicated to another child of Francis I., the Princess 

 Marguerite (the Colines Receuil.) At this time there existed 

 schools of hydrography at Dieppe and Arques, which were 

 patronised by the royal family. A member of the latter 

 school, Pierre Desceliers, executed a map of the world in 1546 

 at the order of Henry II., which is reproduced in the Atlas 

 of Jomard, No. XXL The same hydrographer produced 

 another mappemonde, bearing the arms of France and 

 Dauphiny, and supposed to be of earlier date than the last- 

 named. It is preserved in the British Museum, and cata- 

 logued Add. MS. 5413. This chart is sometimes called the 

 Dauphin Map, at other times, from its having belonged to 

 Edward Harley, Earl of Oxford, the Harleyan Map, and as 

 the map of 1546 is also known as the Dauphin Map, the 

 other designation is jDrobably the better of the two. 



