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Harrlsse,^ and any new discussion must take its de- 

 parture from his work. 



The first supposition in regard to the land north- 

 west of Isabella was, Harrisse points out, that the 



2 Henry Harrisse: The Discovery of North America: A Critical, 

 Documentary and Historic Investigation, London and Paris, 1892, 

 PP- 77-92. 



For literature on the Yucatan theory, see Harrisse, p. 80, note 9. 



Advocates of the Cuban hypothesis are: 



Henry Stevens: Historical and Geographical Notes on the Earliest 

 Discoveries in America, 1453-1530, New Haven, 1869. See also 

 his "Johann Schoner, Professor of Mathematics at Nuremberg," 

 London, 1888, p. xviii. 



J. C. Brevoort: Notes on Giovanni da Verrazano and on a Plani- 

 sphere of 1529 Illustrating His American Voyage in 1524, With a 

 Reduced Copy of the Map, Bull. Amer. Geogr. Soc, Vol. 4, 1873, 

 pp. 145-297 (also published separately under the title "Verrazano 

 the Navigator," New York, 1874) ; reference on p. 210. 



The identification of the land in question with Florida and the eastern 

 coast of North America is maintained by: 



F. A. de Varnhagen: Vespuce et son premier voyage, Paris, 1858. 

 See also his "Amerigo Vespucci: Son caractere, ses ecrits (meme 

 les moins authentiques), sa vie et ses navig^ions," Lima, 1865. 



J. G. Kohl: A History of the Discovery of the East Coast of North 

 America, Particularly the Coast of Maine, from the Northmen 

 in 990 to the Charter of Gilbert in 1578, constituting Vol. i 

 of the "Documentary History of the State of Maine" (Collec- 

 tions of the Maine Historical Society, 2nd Series), Portland, 

 1869, pp. 149 and 236-239. 



H. H. Bancroft: Central America (History of the Pacific States of 

 North America, Vols. 1-3), 3 vols., San Francisco, 1882-87; 

 reference in Vol. i, pp. 99-107. 



John Fiske: The Discovery of America, With Some Account of Ancient 

 America and the Spanish Conquest, 2 vols., Boston, 1892; 

 reference in Vol. 2, pp. 74-82. 



Harrisse, op. cit., pp. 77-92. See also his "Decouverte et evolution 

 cartographique de Terre-Neuve et des pays circonvoisins, 1497, 

 1501, 1769," London and Paris, 1900, pp. 3-75. 



C. R. Markham, transl. and edit.: The Journal of Christopher Colum- 

 bus (During His First Voyage, 1492-93) and Documents Relat- 

 ing to the Voyages of John Cabot and Caspar Corte Real, 

 Hakluyt Soc. Pubis., ist Series, Vol. 86, London, 1S93, p. xlvii. 



