9 8 GREENLAND OR GREEN ISLAND FIG. 14 Bishop Thorlaksson's map of Greenland 1606, showing Estotiland as a part of America. Cf. with Fig. 18. (From Torfaeus* "Gronlandia antiqua," Copen- hagen, 1706, in the library of the American Geographical Society.) This is even more obviously true of Nicolay's map of I56o 6 (Fig. 6), which carries Verde into the Newfoundland Banks, even nearer than his Brazil to a broken-up Newfoundland; and of Zaltieri's map of I566, 7 which plants Verde rather close to "C. Ras" (Cape Race), with only a narrow strip of water between. These cartographers undoubtedly indicated American habitats for their little island ; but they can have had no thought of con- A. E. Nordenskiold: Periplus: An Essay on the Early History of Charts and Sailing-Directions, transl. by F. A. Bather, Stockholm, 1897, PI- 27. 7 Kretschmer. atlas, PI. 19, map 3.
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