Harper's New Monthly Magazine Volume 104 December 1901 to May 1902 . igure III.—Map of Lake Mexico as drawn about 1650 by Giovanni BattistaRamusio, a Venetian Statesman, in which the Points of the Compass arereversed, the South being at the top of this Projection top of this •map. His viewof the city isan extreme in-stance of the early style that showed a pictures of the fountains from which allcity not by a dot, but by a drawing of great rivers were supposed to flow. Thereits most famous building. The likeness is a question in my mind as to whetherof the drawing to the original structure the
Harper's New Monthly Magazine Volume 104 December 1901 to May 1902 . igure III.—Map of Lake Mexico as drawn about 1650 by Giovanni BattistaRamusio, a Venetian Statesman, in which the Points of the Compass arereversed, the South being at the top of this Projection top of this •map. His viewof the city isan extreme in-stance of the early style that showed a pictures of the fountains from which allcity not by a dot, but by a drawing of great rivers were supposed to flow. Thereits most famous building. The likeness is a question in my mind as to whetherof the drawing to the original structure the tublike sources of the three riverswas not necessarily very exact. Jerusa- in our Iceland map are not groundlem is indicated by a church, Rome by a springs, and whether the peculiar ar-fortress or church. Other cities are rep- rangement of lines at the beginning ofresented by fortresses, walls, castles, or the Nile in Verrazanos map (Figure IV.)churches. may not be intended for a mountainSuch maps generally give excellent spring—the fountain idea modified to. Figure IV.—Anglo-Saxon Map of the Tenth Century suit an age just learning to distrustmyth and fable. From this attractive class of cartogra-phy we turn naturally to its near rela-tive, the cartography that owed its beingto literature, imagination, and theory,with a few facts of travel as aids, to beregarded if convenient. Here we mightplace our Italian poets primitive map-pamondo; also the Anglo - Saxon map(Figure IV.) of the tenth century. Ap-parently this is the work of a thoughtful student who is endeavoring to illustratethe literature which he has read. One istempted to undertake a guess concerningthe books which the library of this stu-dent contained. Evidently the Old Testa-ment was not one, since the Jordan isnot shown at all, and the Red Seas posi-tion would render the miracle of its cross-ing entirely unnecessary. Perhaps this student, more fortunatethan we, had access to Livys completehistory. He evidentl
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