Harper's New Monthly Magazine Volume 104 December 1901 to May 1902 . ve land. Majollo, early in thesixteenth century, and Michael Lok,as late as 1582, both probably followingthe explorer Verrazano, showed all ofthe territory north of the Ohio and westof the Appalachian Mountains as partof the Great South Sea, or as the Marede Verra. The story runs that Verra-zano, landing at Cape Hatteras, saw thewaters of the two sounds in the distance,and imagined them the sea. The mapshowing Yerrazanos career as a navi-gator is one of the most accurate of theperiod. Verrazano drew the Gulf ofMexico, South A
Harper's New Monthly Magazine Volume 104 December 1901 to May 1902 . ve land. Majollo, early in thesixteenth century, and Michael Lok,as late as 1582, both probably followingthe explorer Verrazano, showed all ofthe territory north of the Ohio and westof the Appalachian Mountains as partof the Great South Sea, or as the Marede Verra. The story runs that Verra-zano, landing at Cape Hatteras, saw thewaters of the two sounds in the distance,and imagined them the sea. The mapshowing Yerrazanos career as a navi-gator is one of the most accurate of theperiod. Verrazano drew the Gulf ofMexico, South America, Africa, the Medi-terranean, Arabia, and India in excellentfashion. A Portuguese sailor for manyyears, he was most familiar with Africa,and it is in this region that his cartog-raphy is best. The French explorers in Canada triedto do equally well, but failed, chiefly be-cause they were too eager for reports,and therefore too willing to hear, inter-pret, and repeat the native tales. Cham-plains failure to interpret correctly the 748 HARPERS MONTHLY tales about Ni-agara causedLake Erie to bethe last of theGreat Lakes tobe discovered,and meantimepresents to thosewho have ex-perienced LakeEries storms anamusing- sugges-tion of whatmight havebeen,—a peace-ful river, suchas the Detroit. All of the ex-plorers, French,English, andSpanish, werelooking for thepassage that con-nected the two great oceans, and which would give the de-sired route to Asia. Small wonder that wefind in successive maps ready-built Pana-ma and Nicaraguan canals, the Missis-sippi flowing into the Gulf of California,and the Missouri into Puget Sound, andthe Great Lakes, by a long chain ofrivers and lakes, connected with, theMere del Quest. Hudson Bay was oncerepresented as the looked-for WesternSea, and later it was provided with astraight and narrow passage extendingdirectly westward to the Pacific. In theearly nineteenth century the passage hadmoved farther north; in the middle ofthe century
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