must have arrived at different conclusions, notwithstanding the map in Ptolemy of the supposed early date.  Mr. Brevoort, in his notes on the Verrazano map, probably relying on the authority of Mr. Kohl, says, “that the first published map containing traces of Verrazano’s explorations, is in the Ptolemy of Basle, 1530, which appeared four years before the French renewed their attempts at American exploration.  It shows the western sea without a name, and the land north of it is called Francisca.” [Footnote:  Journal of Am.  Geog.  Soc. of New York, vol.  Iv, p. 279.] The inference left to be drawn is that, the presence of the French in this region, as denoted by the name, Francisca, four years before the discoveries in that quarter, by Jacques Cartier, and by the delineation of the western sea upon the Verrazano map, establish the authenticity both of the voyage of Verrazzano and the map.

All this is erroneous.  There was no edition of Ptolemy published in 1530 at Basle, or elsewhere, known to bibliographers.  The map to which reference is made, and which is reproduced by Mr. Kohl, was first printed in 1540 at Basle, in an edition of Ptolemy with new maps, both of the new and old world, and with new descriptions of the countries embraced in them, printed on the back of each, accompanied by a geographical description of the modern state of the countries of the old world by Sebastian Munster. [Footnote:  Geographia Universalis, vetus et nova, complectens Claudii Ptolemai Alexandrini enarrationis libros VIII. * * * Succedunt tabulos Ptolemaice, opera Sebastiani Munsteri nto paratos.  His adjectos sunt plurime novae tabulae, moderna orbis faciem literis & pictura explicantes, inter quas quaedam antehac Ptolemao non fuerunt additae.  Sm. fol.  Basiteae apud Henricum Petrum Meuse Martio Anno MDXI.] In all the editions of Ptolemy, containing maps of the new world, before the year 1540, North America was represented according to the mistaken ideas of Waltzemuller on that subject in 1513, and without regard to the discoveries which took place after his edition.  The maps of Munster constituted a new departure of the Ptolemies in this respect, and were intended to represent the later discoveries in the new world.  They were reprinted several times at Basle by the same printer, Henri Pierre (Lelewell II. 176, 208).  In the first edition, which is now lying before us, the map in question, number 45, bears the title of Novae Insalae XVII.  Nova Tabula.  It is an enlarged representation of the portion relating to the new world of another map, No. 1, in the same volume, called Typas Universalis, a map of the whole world, which appears here also as a new map, and represents, for the first time in the Ptolemaic series, the straits of Magellan in the south, New France in the north, and the coast running continuously, north and northeast, from Florida to Newfoundland.