31.  Guicciardini, the author of the celebrated History of the events
    between 1494 and 1532.

32.  Frisius was born at Dorkum in Frisia, his real name being John Gemma. 
    His map of the world was published in 1540.  Died at Louvain in 1555. 
    Gastaldus was a Genoese and wrote many tracts on Geography.  He was the
    father of Jerome Gastaldus, the author of a celebrated work on the
    Plague.  Tramasinus was a celebrated Venetian printer of the 16th
    Century.  Andreas vavasor is probably an error for Francis Vavasor, the
    Jesuit.

    Munster, Appianus, Puteanus, Peter Martyr, and Ortelius are well known,
    but Hunterus, Demongenitus, and Tramontanus are unknown to me.

33.  Octher’s voyage will be found in Vol.  I., p. 51, of this Edition of
    Hakluyt.

34.  See Vol.  I. of this Edition of Halkluyt.

35.  See Vol.  II. p. 60 (note) of this Edition

36.  Giovanni Verrzzani is evidently meant.  A Florentine by birth, he
    entered the service of Francis I., and in 1524 discovered New France. 
    An account of his travels and tragic death is to be found in Ramusius. 
    In the Strozzi library, at Florence, a manuscript of Verazzani’s is
    preserved.

37.  Born at St Malo.  Discovered part of Canada in 1534.  His Brief recit de
    la Navigation faite es iles de Canada, Hochelage, Saguenay et autres,
    was published at Paris in 1546, 8vo.

38.  Baros, who had been appointed treasurer of the Indies, wrote a History
    of Asia and of India in 4 decades which were published between the
    years 1552 and 1602.  It has been translated from Portuguese into
    Spanish, and considering that it contains many facts not to be found
    elsewhere, it is surprising that there should have been neither a
    French nor English Edition.  Baros was born in 1496 and died in 1570.

39.  This is probably an error for Peter Nonnius, professor of Mathematics
    at the University of Coimbra who published two books De Arte
    Navigandi in 1573.

40.  Little is known of this writer.  He appears to have been the son of
    Jerome Fracastor, a Veronese who obtained a certain celebrity as a poet
    at the beginning of the 16th Century.

41.  In a former passage it is stated that Cabot did not get beyond the 58th
    degree of latitude.

42.  It is now well known that the diminished saltness of the sea off the
    Siberian coast is due to the immense masses of fresh water poured into
    it by the Ob, the Lena, and other Siberian rivers.

43.  Either Salvaterra or the Frier must have possessed a vivid imagination. 
    The former at any rate thoroughly took in Sir Humphrey Gilbert.