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In 1505-6 northwestern Honduras aud Yucatan were seen b 
Solis and Pinzon, and in 1508 Juana (henceforth mene Cuba) 
he the I}. ty | d 
on a Portuguese portalano compiled by Lelewel under date of 
1501-4, It is in the Ptolemy of 1513, extending up to 45° with 
the three-mouthed Ganges and the Gulf of Ganges, while on the 
globe of Schoner, of 1520, it reaches 51°, and is separated from 
by five or six degrees of Balboa’s newly discovered 
South Sea which by a strange guess is carried due north to the 
pole. Off to the northeast, in its proper latitude and longitude, 
most of these maps have Terra de Corte Real as a large island, 
extending probably as far as the Cabots and the Cortereals dis- 
covered—that is, as far west as the meridian of Porto Rico. 
me maps have it Terra de Cuba, others Paria ; and one, in 
three years before, probably by private adventurers, but perhaps 
y Ocampo in his return voyage in 1508. At all events, it ap- 
fro 
and one due north of Yucatan, if studied by the light of Peter 
Martyr's tenth book of his second decade, dated December, 1514, 
will foreshadow an approaching eclipse of Spanish enterprise in 
this direction, 
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