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RegiOy to the east of which a large peninsula attached by 
a very narrow isthmus was named Regio Patalis. The 
whole continent bore the inscription “Terra Australis 
recenter inventa sed nondum plene cognita. ,, The out- 
line of the Regio Patalis irresistibly suggests Australia 
and has given rise to much controversy as to the early 
discovery of that continent. French maps of the same 
date, and, curiously enough, French maps only, showed 
the island of Java separated by a narrow strait from a 
huge shapeless island called “ Jave le Grand,” which 
covers a great part of the area really occupied by Aus- 
tralia, but stretched on some maps as far as 6o° S. This 
also suggested to some writers an early discovery of 
Australia by unknown Frenchmen. 
However, these things may be we cannot be far wrong 
in accepting the map of Orontius as representing the 
current views of the middle of the sixteenth century as 
to the nature of the southern hemisphere. The vast 
Terra Australis built entirely of conjecture save for the 
Tierra del Fuegian scrap of fact, was a continent indeed 
“ not yet fully known,” the finding of which would well 
repay any explorer, and place the happy discoverer on a 
pedestal beside Columbus and Vasco da Gama, perhaps 
even as high as Magellan himself. It was a magnificent 
stimulus and the following chapters trace its historical 
results. 
