Cartier, are shown by the names.  The whole coast claimed by the letter is thus assigned to other parties than Verrazzano.  The logical maxim, expressio unius est exclusio alterius, must here apply.  The expression of the Spanish discoveries, at least exclude those of Verrazzano; demonstrating almost to a moral certainty that the latter could never have been performed for the king of France.  The author of this map, whether executing it under official responsibility or upon his own account, would not have ascribed, or dared to ascribe, to a foreign nation, much less to a rival, the glory which belonged to his own sovereign, then living, whose protection he enjoyed.

IV.

II.  Misrepresentations in regard to the geography of the coast. The Chesapeake.  The island of Louise.  Massachusetts bay.

In pursuing its main object of making known the discovery, the letter ventures upon certain statements which are utterly inconsistent with an actual exploration of the country.  The general position and direction of the coast are given with sufficient correctness to indicate the presence there of a navigator; but its geographical features are so meagrely and untruthfully represented, as to prove that he could not have been the writer.  The same apparent inconsistency exists as to the natural history of the country.  Some details are given in regard to the natives, which correspond with their known characteristics, but others are flagrantly false.  The account is evidently the work of a person who, with an imperfect outline of the coast, by another hand, before him, undertook to describe its hydrographical character at a venture, so far as he deemed it prudent to say anything on the subject; and to give the natural history of the country, in the same way, founded on other accounts of parts of the new world.  The actual falsity of the statements alluded to is, at all events, sufficient to justify the rejection of the whole story.  So far as they relate to the littoral, they are now to be considered.

In general, the geography of the coast is very indefinitely described.  Of its latitudes, with the exception of the landfall and termination of the exploration, which are fixed also by other means, and are necessary to the ground work of the story, only a single one is mentioned.  The particular features of the coast are for the most part unnoticed.  Long distances, embracing from two hundred to six hundred miles each, are passed over with little or no remark.  Islands, rivers, capes, bays, and other land or seamarks, by which navigators usually describe their progress along an unknown coast, are almost entirely unmentioned.  For a distance of over two thousand miles, adopting the narrowest limits possible assigned to the discovery, only one island, one river, and one bay are attempted