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Conclusion 



In conclusion, the present writer is convinced that 

 the continental land northwest of Isabella was not 

 Florida. This land was drawn under the misap- 

 prehension that it was the mainland of Asia. The 

 current ideas of eastern Asia, as shown on the 

 Behaim globe and the Henricus Martellus Germanus 

 map, were used, although the gulf was placed a little 

 too far north. We have shown how this was a com- 

 promise of the Columbus and Cabot discoveries. 

 The lands actually explored and named under the 

 impression of their being eastern Asia were: Cuba, 

 discovered by Columbus ; and the northeastern coast 

 of North America, discovered and explored by John 

 Cabot and the Corte-Reals. The cartographer in 

 endeavoring to digest a mass of conflicting data — 

 theoretical, documentary, cartographical, and oral — 

 produced the result known as the Cantino map. 



