Chatterton, E. Keble (Edward Keble), 1878-1944 · London : Sidgewick & Jackson, litd · leaf 158
hese were made by means of the knowledge and assist-ance of seamen, and were intended to be of service tothe latter in their navigation. A portolano was nothing more or less than a plan ormap-sketch. That which is here given is from a repro-duction in the Map Room of the British Museum.When we… … A ■«) H c b s, O O ■ z i- f. 1 } o H S? a n CL, hn > cS B D C H s: ;^ o o te a f- z U u H si 3 O ta THE MIDDLE AGES is a curiously clever guess. But it should be rememberedthat though the continent had never been rounded(except in Phoenician times), yet there was a vagueidea of the probable…
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