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coast line might be a continuation of the eastern 

 seaboard of Asia. He rejects this surmise because 

 the Asiatic coast is depicted in its proper place on 

 the right-hand side of the Cantino map, as it also is 

 on the Canerio and Waldseemiiller maps. 



The second hypothesis was that the land was Yuca- 

 tan, inserted upside down ''by some unaccountable 

 mistake of the cartographer." Harrisse rejects this 

 view on the grounds that Yucatan was not known 

 until 1517 and that the configuration of the two does 

 not at all coincide. 



The theory that the land was purely imaginary 

 cannot, Harrisse thinks, be entertained in presence of 

 the fact that along the coast there are as many as 

 twenty- two place names (quoting Kohl) ''such as a 



Footnote 2, continued 



E. G. Bourne: Spain in America, 1450-1580 (The American Nation: 

 A History, Vol. 3), New York, 1904, p. 61. 



E. L. Stevenson: Martin WaldseemuUer and the Early Lusitano- 

 Germanic Cartography of the New World, Bull. Amer. Geogr. 

 Soc, Vol. 36, 1904, pp. 193-215; reference on p. 200. See also 

 his "Typical Early Maps of the New World," ibid., Vol. 39. 

 pp. 202-224, reference on p. 207; his "Marine World Chart of 

 Nicolo de Canerio," already cited, text, p. 32; and his Early 

 Spanish Cartography of the New World, With Special Reference 

 to the Wolfenbiittel-Spanish Map and the Work of Diego Ribero, 

 Proc. Amer. Antiquarian Soc, Worcester, Mass., Vol. 19 (N. S.), 

 1909, pp. 369-419, reference on p. 395. 



Woodbury Lowery: The Spanish Settlements Within the Present 

 Limits of the United States, 1513-1561, New York and London, 

 1901, pp. 128-129. 



Neutral in the controversy are: 



J. G. Shea: Ancient Florida, pp. 231-298 in Vol. 2 of Justin Winsor, 

 edit. : Narrative and Critical History of America, 8 vols., Boston, 

 1884-89; reference on pp. 231-232. 



Justin Winsor: Christopher Columbus, and How He Received and 

 Imparted the Spirit of Discovery, Boston, 1891, pp. 421-426. 



