Harper's New Monthly Magazine Volume 104 December 1901 to May 1902 . o hisfriend who has been fishing. Less fortu-nate appears a third bear, who is endeav-oring to find shelter in a shallow horsemans struggle with the wind inthe upper part of this map suggests fiercegales from the northwest. Evidences of C ARTA M ARINA ET DESCRIPTION^SEPTEMTRIONAHVM t^Q^^s tz rr. rz. TT Ti IT i 7?7J Figure II.—A Map of Iceland projected by Olaus Magnus in 1539 RECREATIONS IN CARTOGRAPHY. 745 other conflictsappear in thewatch - towersalong the shore,the armoredhorseman, anda church withfew a saxa about
Harper's New Monthly Magazine Volume 104 December 1901 to May 1902 . o hisfriend who has been fishing. Less fortu-nate appears a third bear, who is endeav-oring to find shelter in a shallow horsemans struggle with the wind inthe upper part of this map suggests fiercegales from the northwest. Evidences of C ARTA M ARINA ET DESCRIPTION^SEPTEMTRIONAHVM t^Q^^s tz rr. rz. TT Ti IT i 7?7J Figure II.—A Map of Iceland projected by Olaus Magnus in 1539 RECREATIONS IN CARTOGRAPHY. 745 other conflictsappear in thewatch - towersalong the shore,the armoredhorseman, anda church withfew a saxa about it. Somebarrels near thecoast may sig-nify commerce,while the chiefindustry of theregion is plain-ly shown in thenumerousforms of fish-ing. The pic-ture of a hugefish devouringa boat, how-ever, is re-served for an-other map. Another goodillustration ofthis style ofcartography isRamusios mapof Lake Mexico(Figure III.).In order to bea little differ-ent from theothers, or per-haps on ac-count of a be-lief in the lawsof gravitation,Ramusio hasplaced thesouth at the. Figure 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 mountainSuc
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