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 146 ANTILLIA AND THE ANTILLES islands may then have been extant which have since vanished as completely as the celebrated map of Toscanelli. Among "the other islands adjoining" we may be sure he in- cluded that island of Beimini, or Bimini (no other than Florida), a part of which, thus marked, occurs in his accompanying map and has the distinction of owning the fabled fountain of youth and luring Ponce de Leon into romantic but futile adventure. Perhaps only one other map gives it the name Bimini; but its insular character is plain on divers maps (made before men learned better), with varying areas and under different names. OTHER IDENTIFICATIONS Peter Martyr was not alone in his identification of the "islands of Antillia." Canerio's map, 7 attributed to 1502, names the large West India group "Antilhas del Rey de Castella," though giving the name Isabella to the chief island; and another map of about the same date (anonymous) 8 gives them the collective title of Antilie, though calling the Queen of the Antilles Cuba, as now. A later map, 9 probably about 1518, varies the first form slightly to "Atilhas [i. e. Antilhas] de Castela" and shows also "Tera Bimini." This is the second Bimini map above referred to. It is true that the name Antillia, often slightly modified, was not restricted to this use but occasionally was applied in other quarters. Beside Behaim's globe and Ruysch's map already men- tioned, a Catalan map of the fifteenth century (obviously earlier than the knowledge of the Portuguese rediscovery of Flores and 7 E. L. Stevenson: Marine World Chart of Nicolo de Canerio Januensis, 1502 (circa), 2 vols. (text, 1908, and facsimile in portfolio, 1007), Amer. Geogr. Soc. and Hispanic Soc. of Amer., New York, 1907-08. 8 Konrad Kretschmer: Die Entdeckung Amerika's in ihrer Bedeutung fur die Geschichte des Weltbildes, 2 vols. (text and atlas), Berlin, 1892; see atlas, PL 8, map 2. 9 Friedrich Kunstmann: Ueber einige der altesten Karten Amerikas, pp. 125-151 in his "Die Entdeckung Amerikas, nach den altesten Quellen geschichtlich dar- gestellt," with an atlas: Atlas zur Entdeckungsgeschichte Amerikas, aus Hand- schriften der K. Hof- und Staats-Bibliothek, der K. Universitaet und des Haupt- conservatoriums der K. B. Armee herausgegeben von Friedrich Kunstmann, Karl von Spruner, Georg M. Thomas, Royal Bavarian Academy of Sciences, Munich, 1859; reference on PL 4 of atlas.