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DAHLGREN, THE DISCOVERY OF THE HAWAIIAN ISLANDS. 



the Asia plate we lind far to the east, and, what is most important for us, the names 

 Laniem, Volcan del Fuego, anpl La Farf ana have been changed into Los Monges, La Vezina, 

 and La Desgraciada, i. e. exactly the same names as those which we have seen in Ortelius' 

 Asia, and which have been shown to belong to the islands discovered by Espinosa. The 

 agreement with these islands is increased by the fact that Plancius has pulled down the 

 group thus rechristened to 20° lat. Thus this curious thing has happened, that names 

 which in the beginning marked the northernmost Ladrones have been applied to the Bonin 

 Archipelago, and together with that archipelago have been moved on the map from the 

 western to the eastern part of the Ocean. 



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What gave Plancius, or the Portuguese cartographer whom he copied, occasion 

 for the change of names thus mentioned we are unable to explain. The cause of the change 

 of place, however unreasonable it may appear, is more easy to show. If we look at Ortelius' 

 "Tartaria" (Mg. 8), we find the group in question situated south-west of the Cape Engaho 

 (G. de Inganno), discovered by Ulloa in 1539, on the west coast of the Californian Peninsula, 

 and at a distance of between 6 and 9 degrees from the meridian which cuts that promon- 

 tory. The islands have about the same position on Plancius' map, only the distance is 

 increased by about 6 degrees. Now as the distance between America and Asia, which 

 in the latitude of Cape Engario (about 30° N. lat.) is 40 degrees on Ortelius' "Tartaria", 



