and as continued from the termination of the English exploration, to a western sea, a portion of which lying between the parallels of 40 Degrees N. and 50 Degrees N. latitude is laid down the same as it appears on the Verrazano map, and bears the inscription of Mare de Verrazana, 1524.  The map of Lok is the first one upon which the western sea is so called.  The designation was undoubtedly the work of Lok himself, as it is in conformity with his practice in other parts of the map, where he denotes the discoveries of others in the same way, that is, by their names with the dates of their voyages annexed.  He no doubt applied the name of Verrazzano to this ocean from finding it represented on the old map given by Verrazzano to the king, and obtained the date from the letter, of which Hakluyt printed in the same volume a translation from the version in Ramusio.  It is certain that Verrazzano could not have been accessory to declaring it a discovery by himself for the reason already mentioned that no such sea, as there laid down, existed to have been discovered.

Lok’s map represents on the Atlantic coast, in latitude 41 Degrees N., the island alleged in the Verrazzano letter to have been named after the king’s mother, and gives it the name of Claudia.  That it is the same island is proven by note to the translation of the letter given in the volume in which this map is found.  Hakluyt puts in the margin, opposite the passage where mention of the island occurs in the letter, the words “Claudia Ilande.”  From whatever source this name was derived by them, whether from Mercator or by their own mistake, both Lok and Hakluyt here indirectly bear their testimony to the fact, that the name of Luisia was not upon the old map given to Henry VIII, which Lok consulted, and Hakluyt described.  It is thus to be concluded that the map delivered to the king showed the western sea, but not any discoveries of Verrazzano on the Atlantic coast.

In another work, as yet unpublished, Hakluyt affords some additional information in regard to the old map, which though brief, is quite significant.  He remarks that it is “a mightie large olde mappe in parchment, made as it would seem by Verrazanus, now in the custodie of Mr. Michael Locke;” and he speaks also of an “olde excellent globe in the Queen’s privie gallery, at Westm’r, w’h also SEEMETH to be of Verrazanus making.” [Footnote:  Ms. in possession of the Maine Historical Society, cited in Mr. Kohl’s Discovery of Maine, p. 291, note.] Both the map and the globe are thus mentioned as the probable workmanship of Verrazzano, from which it is probable that there was no name upon them to determine that question positively.  The great size of the chart, the material upon which it was made, and the authorship of the map and globe by the same person, are circumstances which go to prove that they were both the work of a professed cosmographer, and