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Jave la Grande from Jav^a; Java maior is in its proper 

 place as the island of Java ; the other islands of the Archi- 

 pelago Avhich the French school nnites with Jave la Grande 

 are not so united by De J ode, but are located elsewhere; 

 and the eastern coast is produced further to the south than 

 in any of the French MS. charts, and terminates with the 

 inscrij)tion " Estrecho de Magellanes." The most remark- 

 able difference, however, is that De Jode's outlines are not 

 inverted, but are turned round an angle of 45°, so that the 

 north coast of South America becomes the west coast of the 

 Tcr. australis incognita. Moreover, the country is not 

 hydrograjihically outlined, but is delineated so as to har- 

 monise with the continental character of the atlas. Its 

 name and description are engraved on the so-called Ter. 

 australis incognita, as follows : — " Maxima et admiranda 

 insula occidentalis America, nuncquarta pars orbis nominata : 

 ditissima fertilissimaq ; omniu reri'i ad vita necessariaru. 

 Veteribus philosophis, cosmographis, et potentissimis Monarchis 

 ignota et primu imperante Carolo V. perlustrata. In his 

 peninsulis et isthmo, sunt maxime temjiorii et reru varia- 

 tiones : quonia subiacent incoli 4 zonis, una frigida est, altera 

 torrida, tertia et quarta temperata." I think we find in this 

 inscription a confirmation of the opinion, tenable on other 

 grounds, that the original charts were Spanish, as the Por- 

 tuguese receive no share of the honour of the discovery of 

 America. The legend bears internal evidence of the in- 

 fluence of Johann Schoener, who, in his Luculentissima 

 quuedu terras totins descriptio (Norimbergae, 1515), describes 

 the ]\ew AVorld under the name " America," and speaks of 

 it as " quarta orbis pars," and '' insula mirae magnitudinis " — 

 an opinion which he subsequently renounced in favour of the 

 theory that America was united to Asia, citing, strangely 

 enough, the discoveries of Magellan as a proof: — " Modo 

 vero per novissimas navigationes factas anno 1519, per 

 Magellanum versus Moluccas insulas in supremo oriente 

 positas eam terram invenerunt continentem superioris Indiae 

 quae pars est Asiae." {Opusculum Geograpkicum, Norim- 

 bergae, 1533, ii., 1 and 20.) 



The " America " of De Jode bears few inscriptions, but 

 some of them are significant ; such as " R. S. Augustin," 

 nearly in the position of the cape of that name, and corre- 

 sponding to the Rio S. Augustino of the Hydrographia ; and 

 in the extreme south, " Estrecho de Magellanes." This 

 record of Magellan's voyage proves that the original of 



