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CAMBRIDGE: PRESS OF JOHN WILSON AND SON. 1867. ^^^mm ■er n ~ I', r~'Jf IJ> > N, __, t v^_^ REMARKS mi SEBASTIAN CABOTS MAl'PE-MONDK. 7 CHARLES DEANE. IlKI'lUVTKn KIIOM TIIK I'ltOOKEDINOS OF TIIK AMEIUCAN AXTIQUAUIAN SOCIETY. FOR APrtlL. 1867. 'J^: 18C:< "^^^;.<^^ / / CAMBRIDGK: PRESS OF JOHN WILSON AND SON. 1867. % ->*^. . » Wlj IN ■ iS' tinued by the distinguished scholar, M. D'Avezac, from Avhom the volume of iexte explkatlf may coon be expected. Mr. Deane said, that since the publication of Cabot's map, he had seen no complete analysis of it by an historical student, nor any opinion expressed as to whether it cleared up any of the uncertainties which had long surrounded the voyages of the Cabots. He at^reed with Mr. Hale, that some of these questions, one after another, were getting solved. The historical material recently discovered in the Venetian and in the Spanish archives, and brought together by Mr. Hale in his admirable Report of the Council for October, 1865, shows conclusively that there were two voyages, that is to say, one in 1497, and one in 1498 ; and, moreover, that John Cabot was the person to be regarded as the original discoverer, accompanied, how- ever, by his son Sebastian. A close study of this map will probably settle some other questions. Mr. Richard Biddle, in his " Memoir of Sebastian Cabot," contended that Cabot's Prima Vista was not New- foundland, as had generally been supposed, but Labrador. The land first seen is clearly indicated on the map, and prima vista, and again prima tierra vista, are marked upon it ; and it is very certain that it is neither Newfoundland nor Labrador, but Cape Breton.* The latitude and longitude given to * Michael Lok's map, published by Hakluyt in his "Divers Voyages," 1682. and " made according to Verozanus plat," — described as "an olde ex- . ' r ' "f :■ ■■i'*^w'iM*«iffftswwgi!«wji fi fti'^«*^ ^^ "! * " ? . '! ! :? 1 \ the spot confirm the other indications upon the map. Mr. Biddie was quite certain that Sebastian Cabot discovered, in one of his early voyages, Hudson's Bay ; but no representation of that bay appears upon the map, which would seem to be conclusive upon that subject.* This map in the Imperial Librai7 was evidently made during Cabot's residence in Spain ; and the printed matter upon it indicates as its date 1544, which was four years before his return to England. It is a sailing chart, and probably was intended to em- brace the geographical discoveries down to that time. That this is not " the mappe of Sebastian Cabot, cut by Clement Adams," which Hakluyt described in his folio of 1589 (page 511), as then "to be seen in her Maiesties priuie gallerie at Westminster," f •J ■ f cellent mappe which he gave to King Henrie the eight," — has "J. Cabot 1497," inscribed upon a delineation of" C. Breton." We niuat suppose Lolt to have made some additions to " Verazanus phit." * On tlie map of (Jrtelius, published in 1570, there is delineated wliat appears to be the bay afterwards called " Hudson's Bay." It is known that Ortelius had before liim Sebastian Cabot's map ; and the inference has been drawn, that that map furnished the authority for such delineation. But, as stated above, it furnishes no such authority. t I suppose the map described by Hakluyt must be tlie same subsequently noticed by Purchas (in 1625; Pilgrimes, iii. 807), as "the great Map in his Majesties priuie Gallerie, of which SclHiMian Cahn is often tlierein called the Author," and of which Purchas, in the margin, says, " This Map, some say, was taken out jf Sir Seh. Cabot's Map by Clem. Adams 1549." He sums up the statement as to the disco\ery, substantially in Hakluyt's English version which he says " are the wordes of tlie great Map." He gives the year of the discovery as " 1497," which is correct, in fact, but does not conform in that respect, as will be seen, to the reading in Hakluyt's folio of 1589, though it does conform to that of his later edition. (See note following). Though Purchas may have seen the map which he here describes " in his Majesties 'M \ u Jt iJLJ III > uiMriMMiftiMiiniii ip»iatfcjr JMii iitt.fc. is evident from a comparison of the language of the extract which Ilakluyt gives from it, with the lan- guage of the Ufjende on the map in the Imperial Library. The parallel passages from each are here given. The following is from Hakluyt, taken by him from the map of Clement Adams ; — priuie Gallorie," he probably followed Hakluyt in his last edition, tlie third volume of wliieh he cites near this place ; and I sujjpose Purchas still had his eye on the passage in llakluyt's third volume, when he repeats (iv. 1812) that " the Map ... in the I'rivy Gallery hatii 1497." Whetlier the date 1549, in the margin of Turchas, (iii. 807,) refers to the map of Cabot, or to that of Clement Adams "taken out of" Cabot's map, may not be" certain. I have said that the date of the map in the Imperial Library is 1544. That is the year given in section xvii. of the It'ijcmles, which in that pi. ^e speak of Sebastian Cabot as the author of tiie map. There is good reason to believe that there were two editions of this map, besides the one cut from it by Clement Adjinis. In a volume edited by Nathan Cliytricus, first published in 1594 (referred to in a note on page 14 of the Proceedings for October, 1860), may be seen tlie Latin li'