of the World, in three ponderous folios, in which he recites, more at length, the contents of the Verrazzano letter, also without mentioning where he had found it, but disclosing nevertheless that it was in Ramusio, by his following the variations of that version, particularly in regard to the complexion of the natives represented to have been first seen, as they will be hereafter explained. [Footnote:  La Cosmographie Universelle de tout le Monde, tom.  II, part II, 2175-9. (Paris, 1575.)] This publication of Belleforest is the more important, because it is from the abstract of the Verrazzano letter contained in it, that Lescarbot, thirty-four years afterwards, took his account of the voyage and discovery, word for word, without acknowledgment. [Footnote:  Hist. de la Nouvelle France, p. 27, et seq. (ed. 1609).  In a subsequent portion of his history (p. 244) Lescarbot again refers incidentally to Verrazzano in connection with Jacques Cartier, to whom he attributes a preposterous statement, acknowledging the Verrazzano discovery.  He states that in 1533 Cartier made known to Chabot, then admiral of France, his willingness “to discover countries, as the Spanish had done, in the West Indies, and as, nine years before, Jean Verrazzano (had done) under the authority of King Francis I, which Verrazzano, being prevented by death, had not conducted any colony into the lands he had discovered, and had only remarked the coast from about the thirtieth degree of the Terre-neuve, which at the present day they call Florida, as far as the fortieth.  For the purpose of continuing his design, he offered his services, if it were the pleasure of the king, to furnish him with the necessary means.  The lord admiral having approved these words, represented then to his majesty, &c.”  Lescarbot gives no authority for this statement, made by him seventy-five years after the voyage of Cartier.  It is absurd on its face and is contradicted by existing records of that voyage.  No authority has ever confined the Verrazzano discovery within the limits here mentioned.  Cartier is represented as saying to the admiral that in order to complete Verrazzano’s design of carrying colonials to the country discovered by him, that is, within those limits, he would go himself, if the king would accept his services.  The documents recently published from the archives of St. Malo, show that the voyage of Cartier proposed by Cartier, was for the purpose of passing through the straits of Belle Isle, in latitude 52 Degrees, far north of the northern limit of the Verrazzano discovery, according to either version of the letter, and not with a design of planting a colony, or going to any part of the Verrazzano explorations, much less to a point south of the fortieth degree. (Rame, Documents inedits sur Jacques Cartier et le Canada, p. 3, Tross, Paris, 1865.) Besides, neither in the commissions to Cartier, nor in any of the accounts of his voyages, is there the slightest allusion to