Winslow —The Mapping of Missouri. 61 
by Bolognino Zaltieri. A printed copy is preserved in the 
imperial library in Paris. A sketch of a portion of a reduced 
copy of this map contained in Vol. I, of the 100th Merid. 
reports opposite p. 504, is presented here. 
The name Gulf of Mexico, it will be noted is applied here, 
as is also the name Florida to the peninsular which now bears 
that name. Two large streams also enter the Gulf from the 
north, one of which may have been intended to represent the 
Mississippi, perhaps inserted from the results of the De Soto 
expedition earlier in the century. The mountain ranges indi- 
cated it is hard to find a place for in our modern topographic 
maps of the country. The approximate site of Missouri is 
added to this map for the purpose of the present article. 
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Fie. 2. MERCATOR MAP — 1569. 
The Mercator ( Girard) ** mappemonde’’ of 1569, intro- 
duced his well-known projection. An enlarged copy of an 
outline sketch of a portion of this map relating to North 
America, is introduced above. It will be noticed that the 
Gulf of Mexico is represented much more accurately than in 
the earlier map of Zaltieri. The extension of the St. Lawrence 
river into the southwestern portion of the continent is a no- 
ticeable feature which we find reproduced in others which — 
