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Narrative and critical history of America (1884)

Winsor, Justin, 1831-1897, Maclean, John, 1851-1928, association, MacLean, Harrison John (autograph) · Boston ; New York : Houghton, Mifflin and Co. · leaf 177

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were to connect them with thediscoveries that followed in the train of Columbus, though occasionalh there is one who is possessed with a sortof prevision. The Cantino map of 1502 ^ does not settle the question, for a point lying northeast of the Por-tuguese discoveries in the Newfoundland region… … FRA MAURO, 1459. Lelewel (pi. 43), in a map made to show the Portuguese views at this time,* which he represents by combiningand reconciling the Ptolemy maps of 1511 and 1513, still places the Gronland peninsula in the northwestof Europe, and if his deductions are correct, the Portuguese had as 3et…

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