. Scottish geographical magazine. ly, France, and Spainled Bordone, Desceliers, and Santa Cruz away from the old work ofPtolemy, and into the mistake of making Scotland an island. The second Map of the World drawn by Pierre Desceliers, how-ever, dated 1546 (six years after Alexander Lyndsays voyage roundScotland with James v.), shows Scotland in its true relation to Eng-land, and not surrounded by water (see map, p. 298). Very soon after the middle of the sixteenth century it must havebeen known to the famous geographer and map publisher, Ortelius, in 2<J2 SCOTTISH GEOGRAPHICAL MAGAZINE. th
. Scottish geographical magazine. ly, France, and Spainled Bordone, Desceliers, and Santa Cruz away from the old work ofPtolemy, and into the mistake of making Scotland an island. The second Map of the World drawn by Pierre Desceliers, how-ever, dated 1546 (six years after Alexander Lyndsays voyage roundScotland with James v.), shows Scotland in its true relation to Eng-land, and not surrounded by water (see map, p. 298). Very soon after the middle of the sixteenth century it must havebeen known to the famous geographer and map publisher, Ortelius, in 2<J2 SCOTTISH GEOGRAPHICAL MAGAZINE. the Netherlands, that Scotland was not an island, because in 1570 hebrought out his atlas (which would be some time in preparation) con-taining a map of the British Isles and one of Scotland. These maps donot show Scotland as an island, and they resemble somewhat in formour maps of the present day. The map of Ortelius proves that shortly after the middle of the six-teenth century an atlas was published which gave a map of Scotland,. England with Scotland as an Island. By Bordone. Venice, 152> and presented a fairly accurate conception of this country. Ortelius seemsto have obtained assistance from Humphrey Lloyd, a native of mentions in his famous work that Abraham Ortelius did veryearnestly solicit him to undertake the task of writing the Britannia, andthat he assisted Ortelius. The credit of first publishing a map showing something like thetrue shape of Scotland has been recently given to Mercator, whose atlascame out about twenty years after that of Ortelius. On comparing thesetwo early printed maps Mercators is found to resemble in many pointsthat of Ortelius, with improvements. THE EVOLUTION OF THE MAP OF SCOTLAND. 293 The Berlin Geographical Society in 1891 published a large folio of re-found unpublished maps by Mercator, and among these drawingsGreat Britain is given on eight sheets and is dated 1564. The Scotland,on four of these sheets, bears a very str
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