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p. 96) writes, " Putat (Colonus) regiones has (Parise) esse Cubee contiguas et 

 adhserentes : ita quod utrseque sint Indiae Gangetidis continens ipsum . . . ." 

 C 416 ) p. 267. See the important manuscript of Andres Bernaldez, Cura de 

 la Villa de los Palacios (Historia de los Reyes Catholicos, cap. 123). This 

 history comprises the years 1488 to 1513. Bernaldez had received Columbus, 

 in 1496, on his return from his second voyage, into his house. By the par- 

 ticular kindness of M. Ternaux-Compans, to whom the History of the Con- 

 quista owes many important elucidations, I was enabled to make a free use, 

 in Dec. 1838, at Paris, of this manuscript, which was in the possession 

 of my distinguished friend the historiographer, Don Juan Bautista Mufloa 

 (Compare Fern. Colon, Vida del Almirante, cap. 56). 



( 417 ) p. 267. Examen crit. T. iii. p. 244248. 



( 418 ) p. 268. Cape Horn was discovered in February 1526, by Francisco 

 de Hoces, in the expedition of the Commendador Garcia de Loaysa, which, 

 following that of Magellan, was destined for the Moluccas. Whilst Loaysa 

 sailed through the Straits of Magellan, Hoces, with his Caravel, the San 

 Lesmes, was separated from the flotilla, and driven as far as 55 S. latitude. 

 "Dijeron los del buque que les parecia que era alii acabamiento de tierra" 

 (Navarrete, Viages de los Espanoles, T. v. p. 28 and 404488). Fleurieu 

 maintains that Hoces only saw the Cabo del buen Successo, west of Staten- 

 Island. Such a strange uncertainty respecting the form of the land prevailed 

 anew towards the end of the 16th century, that the author of the Araucana 

 (Canto i. oct. 9) could believe that the Magellanic straits had closed by an 

 earthquake, and by the raising of the bottom of the sea ; and, on the other 

 hand, Acosta (Historia natural y moral de las Indias, lib. iii. cap. 10) took 

 the Terra del Fuego for the beginning of a great south polar land. (Compare 

 also Kosmos, Bd. ii. S. 62 and 124 ; Engl. edit. Vol. ii. p. 60 and Note 96.) 



( 419 ) p. 268. The question, whether the isthmus-hypothesis, according 

 to which Cape Prasum, on the east of Africa, joined on to an east Asiatic 

 isthmus from Thina?, is to be traced back to Marinns of Tyre, or to Hipparchus, 

 or to the Babylonian Seleucus, or rather to Aristotle de Coelo (ii. 14), has 

 been treated by me in detail in another work (Examen crit. T. i. p. 144, 161, 

 and 329 ; T. ii. p. 370372). 



C 420 ) p. 269. Paolo Toscanelli was so much distinguished as an astronomer, 

 that Behaim's teacher, Regiomontanus, dedicated to him, in 1463, his work 

 " De Quadratura Circuli," directed against the Cardinal Nicolaus de Cusa. 

 He constructed the great gnomon in the Church of Santa Maria Novella at 

 Florence, and died in 1482, at the age of 85, without having lived long 



