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presented a real difficulty; but the argument loses 

 much of its force if we extend our inquiry to a study 

 of the maps made between 1500 and 1600. In these 

 maps we find both the Spanish and the Portuguese 

 territories displaced, progressively, by too great a 

 longitude. The Portuguese longitudes are too great 

 to the eastward; the Spanish too great to the west- 

 ward. 



Displacement of Longitudes Malay 



Cape of Cape Cape Peninsula 



Good Hope Guardafui Comorin (Singapore) 



Behaim (1492)^^ 

 La Cosa (1500)^^ 

 Ruysch (1508)49 



Waldseemiiller (1507)^° 

 Ribero (1529)^^ 

 Cabot (1544)^2 



Ortelius (1570)^^ 

 Hakluyt (1599)^'' . 



*'• See, above, p. 59, footnote 7. 

 ^8 See, above, p. 50. footnote 8. 

 <9 Nordenskicild, Facsimile-Atlas, PI. 32. 



50 See, above, p. 64, footnote 17. 



51 Full-size photograph of copy in Grand Ducal Library of Weimar in 

 Portfolio II in E. L. Stevenson: Maps Illustrating Early Discovery 

 and Exploration in America, 1 502-1 530, Reproduced by Photography 

 from the Original Manuscripts, text and 12 portfolios, New Brunswick, 

 N. J., 1903 and 1906. Reduced reproduction of copy in archives of 

 Collegio di Propaganda Fide, Rome, in Nordenskiold, Periplus. Pis. 48-49. 



52 A photographic facsimile of the original in the Bibliotheque Na- 

 tionale, Paris, is on the walls of the American Geographical Society of 

 New York (see E. L. Stevenson: A Description of Early Maps, Originals 

 and Facsimiles, 1452-1611, Amer. Geogr. Soc, New York, 1921, pp. 

 17-18). Also an outline drawing without the legends, reproduced by 

 iithographj', in Jomard, op. cit., PI. XX, 1-4. 



" Nordenskiold, Facsimile-Atlas, PI. 46. 

 5" Ibid., PI. 50. 



