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BIBLIOGRAPHICAL NOTES. 



Maps ot the Voyages, 1642 and 1644. 

 Manuscript Maps. 



1. In the collection of Van Keulen of Amsterdam. A large and 



handsome map on Japanese paper, showing both voyages. 

 Mr. Loupe thinks it to be the work of Pilot-Major Visscher. 

 Australia bears the name of Compagnis Nieu Nederlandt. 

 This map was reproduced in coloured facsimile in Mr. Swart's 

 edition of the complete journal published in I860. 



2. In the British Museum. Sloane MSS. 5222, Art. 12. A large 



skctch map, roughly executed, showing both voyages. In 

 the centre of Australia is written "This large Land of New 

 Guinea was first discovered to joyne to ye South Land by ye 

 Yot Lemmen as by this Chart Ffraneois Jacobus Vis. Pilot 

 Maior Anno 1643." Mr. Major, who gives a reduced copy of 

 this chart in his Early Voyages, thinks it to be a copy of 

 a map by Visscher, and that it was made by Captain Thomas 

 Bowrey, of Fort St. George, about 1687. Mr. Alfred 

 Mault, of Hobart, has made a facsimile of the original map, 

 and this has been photo-lithographed for the Royal Society 

 of Tasmania. 



3. In the India Museum, South Kensington. A coloured chart of 



the coast of Van Diemen's Land, endorsed in an old hand : 

 " A Draught of the South Land lately discovered, 1643." 

 Mr. A. Mault found this chart amongst the Records of the 

 India Office. He contributed to the Transactions of the 

 Australasian Association for the Advancement of Science, 

 1892, a description of this map with coloured facsimile. 



Early Maps. 



In 1648, four years after Tasman's second voyage, the building 

 of the new Stadhuis, or Town Hall, of Amsterdam was begun. The 

 opportunity was taken to commemorate Tasman's discoveries by 

 showing them in a great map of the world in two hemispheres, cut in 

 the stone pavement of the Great Hall (Burgerzaal) of the Stadhuis. 

 This pavement has long since been boarded over. 



Mr. Major says that an outline of the coast visited by Tasman 

 is given in Turquet's Mappemonde, published in Paris in 1647 ; also 

 in the 1650 edition of Janssen's Atlas, and in the 1660 edition of J. 

 Klencke's Atlas. The discoveries are also shown in Fredk. de Wit's 

 map, published in 1660 ; and a representation of the hemispheres is 

 given in the fine work describing the Stadhuis, and published in 

 1661. The map in Thevenot (1663) is from the Stadhuis pave- 

 ment, but with names added. Some of the published maps contain 

 the names Hollandia Nova and Zeelandia Nova. 



