The discovery of America . ages in 1582/ retains the Sea of Verrazano, but gives enough continentto include the journeys of Soto and Coronado. Inone respect it is interesting as showing just aboutthe extent of North America that was known in1582, ninety years after the first crossing of theAtlantic by Colmnbus. The reader will observethat the imaginary islands of Brazil and St. Bran-don have not disappeared, but are shifted in posi-tion, while the Frislanda of the Zeno narrative ap-pears to the south of Greenland. A conspicuousfeature is the large island of Norombega (equiva-lent to New Englan
The discovery of America . ages in 1582/ retains the Sea of Verrazano, but gives enough continentto include the journeys of Soto and Coronado. Inone respect it is interesting as showing just aboutthe extent of North America that was known in1582, ninety years after the first crossing of theAtlantic by Colmnbus. The reader will observethat the imaginary islands of Brazil and St. Bran-don have not disappeared, but are shifted in posi-tion, while the Frislanda of the Zeno narrative ap-pears to the south of Greenland. A conspicuousfeature is the large island of Norombega (equiva-lent to New England with Acadia), separated fromthe mainland by what is apparently the Hudsonriver figured as a strait communicating with the ^ Beyond the limits of the known land, and in the ^ The copy here given is photographed from the reduced copyin Winsor, Narr. and Crit. Hist., iv. 44. - Tt was rerv commonly believed at that time that tliQ riverdiscovered by VeiTaz;ino and aiterward to be named for Hudsonwas such a
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