. A memoir of Jacques Cartier, sieur de Limoilou : his voyages to the St. Lawrence. A bibliography and a facsimile of the manuscript of 1534, with annotations, World in the search for a shorter passage toreach the Spice Islands.^ Cantinos planisphere,which is supposed to exhibit the discoveries of Cor-tereal, does not support this claim, as it shows no open-ing like the Gulf of St. Lawrence, nor of a river,Rio Nevado, which that navigator is said to have 1 Cf. Histoire de la Decouverte de rAmerique, GafFarel, Paris, 1892 ;Congres International des Americanistes, Nancy, 1875 (L*Amerique e
. A memoir of Jacques Cartier, sieur de Limoilou : his voyages to the St. Lawrence. A bibliography and a facsimile of the manuscript of 1534, with annotations, World in the search for a shorter passage toreach the Spice Islands.^ Cantinos planisphere,which is supposed to exhibit the discoveries of Cor-tereal, does not support this claim, as it shows no open-ing like the Gulf of St. Lawrence, nor of a river,Rio Nevado, which that navigator is said to have 1 Cf. Histoire de la Decouverte de rAmerique, GafFarel, Paris, 1892 ;Congres International des Americanistes, Nancy, 1875 (L*Amerique et lesPortugais); Les Navigations Fran9aises, Margry, Paris, 1867. 2 ** In the yeare a thousande and five hundreth Caspar Cortesrealesmade a voyage thyeher with two Caravelles ; but founde not the streyghtor passage he sought. At his beinge there, he names the Ilandes that lyein the mouth of the goulfe ^adrado [the St. Lawrence] after his name,Cortesreales, lyinge in the L [fifty] degrees or more. Vide The FirstThree Books on America, Birmingham, 1885, p. 344. Cf. Historia ge- ^ neral de las Indies, Gomara, 1 552—3 ; Navigationi et Viaggi, Ramusio, 1556. 59. CosT^^f </e/ mar vaano CaJbo €/. //cofitConja CoAo c/e 600 Ventura Cantino — 150260 MEMOIR OF JACQUES CARTIER discovered. Such a river, however, is found on latermaps, the Riccardiana of 1534—40, and the Cabotmap of 1544, though not near the Gulf of St. Law-rence.
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