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Title: Bancroft's Works History of the Northwest Coast vol 1
Year: 1884 (1880s)
Authors: Bancroft, Hubert Howe
Subjects: history
Publisher: San Francisco, A. L. Bancroft and Company
Contributing Library: Brigham Young University-Idaho, David O. McKay Library
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Wytfliet-Ptolemy Map, 1597—No. 2. Mendocino, to which in 40° is joined a large island.The coast names are taken equally from CabrillosCalifornia voyage, from Coronados wanderings fromNew Mexico to Kansas, and from unknown or imagi-nary sources, doubtless satisfactory to the cosmog-rapher. The geographical features above 45°, likemost below that latitude, are purely imaginary. Ican hardly conjecture any plausible origin for the 84 APOCRYPHAL VOYAGES TO THE NORTHWEST. great river flowing into the northern sea, with itsthree towns of Pagul, Salboy, and Cubirago, unlessthey were brought over from Asia with the prov-ince of Bergi. The third map is the central north-ern section adjoining the two preceding on thenorth and east respectively, under the name ConibasRegio cum Vicinis Gentibus. Here we have anothermysterious river with four towns, in regions as yet
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Wytfliet-Ptolemy Map, 1597—No. 3. unapproached by white men, save on the wings ofimagination. Here also we have the round mardulce elaborated into Lake Conibas, and in its centrean island and a town of the same name; also a RiverCogib, more like a strait, connecting it with thenorthern sea. It is likely that this representation isowing to Canadian aboriginal rumors; for not faraway to the east are the lakes from which the Sague-nai flowed down to the St Lawrence at Hochelaga;while about the same distance southward are New CONRAD LOWS BOOK. S3 Granada with its Seven Cities, very near to thehead-waters of the great river of Canada. Verily, fora region as yet unvisited, the great northern interiorwas becoming remarkably well known. Conrad Low, in his Book of Sea Heroes, 1598,gives a general map like those of Ortelius, Ptolemy,,and others;8 but another map in this work has somedecidedly novel features, as will be seen from the an-nexed copy. It represents only the regions north of60°,

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