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New York, Cape Cod and other strongly marked coasts, in fact 
is mere guess work. Third, that the discoveries of the Cabots 
and Cortereals are not properly laid down, and that the coast line 
does not resemble that from Cape Race westward. And fourth 
jour 
that ‘the map has no indication of the degrees of latitude . 
at a point named Cabo 
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never heard tell of any island 835 leagues long, and hence he 
believed Cuba to be in Asia. A little further on to the south- 
southwest, amid shoals and islands, picking his way and 
the sands, Colum] hed another pl 
gelista. Here, from the mast head, one might see coasts to the 
north, the Bay of Cortes and the Cayos de Indios to the west, 
and land to the southwest and south, the whole, with islands 
and keys, appearing continuous so as to form a gulf of consid- 
erable extent studded with islets. This body of water Colum- 
bus mistook for the Gulf of Ganges! ‘“Indis: Gangetidis con- 
tinentem eam esse plagam eontendit Colonus,” wrote 
eter Mar- 
tyr to Cardinal Bernardino, August, 1495, on the authority of 
piace which he nam Evan- 
