Notes on the earliest discoveries in America. 317 
Columbus had placed his discoveries in the Indian Archipel- 
ago beyond the Ganges, and the world accepted the names he 
gave to the separate islands. No new general name was required. 
The discoveries of the Cabots and the Cortereals being also in 
ee indeed eastern Asia. The word Cuba, instead of Juana, the name Poi by 
umbus, and the fact that it is repre sented as an island have been stre ously 
ejected to by geo certo but both teees sajaitiiatn will be pic in prises 
[See preliminary preface 
ar Cosa perished in Ojeda’s mad expedition in fone 1509. He was a clever fel- 
that 
db 
exploring expeditions, either as Master 0 f Charts sor command r, with ‘Sen Bae 
eci ae mal had 
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pedition of his own to Uraba and Panama, and on another similar one in 1507-8. 
On the ia of > a Rossa 1509, mg embarked with de® eo and per- 
ished goo: Fro n that he might be pain chart-making, 
from J iia to Detrhan, 4 1500; whe ceneniee 1502 to wee uta, ee when 
page See 3s m); and again parts of the years 1506-7, as well as parts of 
iy 1 to 1508 are not laid ppg is it not probable that | the chart had passed oe. a 
i@ maker’s ~ an 
are many other points for discussion. , but as the writer soi haa peal 7 under his ese 
the original clieeh, wa judges only from M. a Jomare’sexcllen t colored fac-simile 
three double sleshane éblio sheets, he feels 
8 (greatly reduced i in size) given by Humboldt, Ghillany, Lelewel, K Kohl 
and others, are 
as the coloring, and the lines of latitude and longitude are left out. Pa Sa pn 
misplaced and others are misspelled, while many im es 
Heap ing tl 
se up to the Polisacus river and bay, in latitude 53° north that 
bad for his globe made in 1492. Hence the two works agree remarkably ‘well, but 
advan , 
be ro 
ward, beyond the Polisaaua river and bay, trong the ‘pag rma sg of Gon eal 
rt i sae pk gag th the discoveries of the Cabots 
and the Polisanchiu sunt gerd uro in 1457 is the Polisacus 
of Ruysch and the Polemss of 1511, 71513, 1535, and 1540. ‘These and the Po 
Sacus of Puluisangu of Ortelius, an are 
Probably the Amoor river of our day. a gaprmnctic | yoy ann 
ern Asia, are about 50° to 52° north latitude, and therefore, America on La Cosa’s 
chart cannot of extend further west than th left flagstaff, the meridian of Porto Rico. 
The three rivers on the three reduced fac-similes are not in the original map of La 
