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lers ; London 1707.) With regard to the term ‘Apollonia’ 
this also is an imaginary one, though having no reference to 
the ancient town Apollonia, of which there were 33 ; but to 
the St. Apollonia whose feast is in December, and it being 
the common practice of the Portuguese to attach the names 
of saints to places they saw, or imagined they saw. With re- 
gard to the dates of the first discovery of this £ Cerne,’ they 
vary in a remarkable manner, such as 1500, 1507, 1505, 1528, 
1545, 1502 etc. evidently showing there was no certainty in 
the matter. It was even called “ Diego Roys ” by some na- 
vigators ; and was even confounded with 4 Juan de Lisboa,’ 
though in the early charts, (some rare copies of which I shall 
be able to forward to the Society next month) Juan de Lis- 
boa is placed many degrees to the South of it, and even of tire 
south point of Madagascar. In some of the very early maps 
“Cerne” is even represented as North East of Madagascar, 
Mascarenhas lying between them and St. Apolonia (someti- 
mes San Polonia) a smaller island, holding a North West po- 
sition of Mascarenhas towards Madagascar. In an ancient 
chart of 1546, this is their relative position : — 
