A valuable Ear-mark. 187 
Herrera one cannot readily comprehend. Herrera was neither 
a cartographer nor a sailor. In his time he was the historian of 
Columbus, but he had none of the material that enabled Navar- 
rete to speak ex cathedra, and Navarrete discards Watling island, 
Among the maps in the British Museum is one of more than 
ordinary interest; it is not an original but its fidelity to the 
original is attested. It bears the inscription, “Mappa Munde 
Peinte sur Parchemin par Ordre de Henri II, Roi de France.” It 
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Figure 1.—A part of the Map of Herrera—1601—with Vignette of Watling 
Tsland from a modern Chart. 
is generally referred to the third decade of the sixteenth century, 
but from features about it that it is not best to discuss here the 
author is inclined to place the date about forty years later. At 
all events it antedates the map of Herrera by thirty years—pos- 
sibly by seventy years. So far as can be learned, neither its 
genuineness nor its authenticity has been questioned. The 
draftsman had a delightfully unique way of conventionalizing the 
coast outlines. There are several other maps extant coast-charted 
in the same manner. This feature is therefore not only a quaint 
and artistic conventionalism ; it becomes a valuable ear-mark in 
identifying the date of certain maps. 
26—Nar. Grog. Maa., vot. VI, 1894. 
