Seventh.  “And fifty leagues beyond, more to the north, where we found a more elevated country.  The people were entirely different from the others we had seen, so rude and barbarous that we were unable by any signs we could make, to hold communication with them.  Against their will we penetrated two or three leagues into the 50 interior with twenty-five men.”

Eighth.  “Departing from thence we kept along the coast, steering between east and north, and found the country more pleasant and open.  Within fifty leagues we discovered thirty two islands, all 50 near the mainland.”

Ninth.  “We had no intercourse with the people.  After sailing between
east and north one hundred and fifty leagues more we determined to
return France, having discovered 700 leagues of unknown lands.”       150
Making a total of   695 L.

Now let the reader trace for himself, these courses and distances, as shown on the accompanying sketch of the map of Ribero. according to the following scale, [Proofreaders Note:  scale omitted] representing the measurements in the letter; which are calculated on the basis of 15.625 leagues to a degree, while those on the map are 17 1/2 leagues; and he will find, that not only is the whole littoral distance between the parallels of 34 degrees and 50 degrees on the map about seven hundred leagues, but that the several courses and distances, of which this entire distance is composed according to the letter, correspond with similar divisions on the map, proving to a certainty that this map was the source from which the line of coast described in the letter was derived, or the reverse.

It will be observed that the first course, beginning according to the letter at the landfall, in latitude 34 N., commences on the map a little north of C. Trafalgar as there laid down, now Cape Fear, and proceeds southerly fifty leagues to C. de S. Roman.

The first course being retraced, the second, also of fifty leagues, starting from the landfall near C. Traffalgar, extends to C. de S. Juan of the map, the well known point of Hatteras.

The third, runs from C. de S. Juan, one hundred leagues northwardly, to the Montana verde, the Navesinks at the mouth of the Hudson, “described as the pleasant situation among steep hills, through which a very large river forced its way into the sea.”  The perfect identification of this course and distance has already been observed.

The fourth extends easterly from the Montana verde eighty leagues and strikes the islands of the C. de Muchas yllas, or Cape Cod, where, among the Elizabeth islands, Martha’s Vineyard and Nantucket, the island of Louise is intended by the letter to be placed.  This course, easterly, fixes the position of that island at this point.