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 A MAINLAND ANTILLIA 147 Corvo) 10 presents a duplicate delineation of most of the Azores, giving the supposed additional islands a quite correct slant north- westward and individual names selected impartially from divers sources. One of these is Attiaela, recalling the doubtful "Atilae"of the warning-figure inscription on the map of the Pizigani of 1367" (Fig. 2), which may have suggested it, being applied in the same or a neighboring region. The islands remain mysterious, perhaps merely registering a free range of fancy at divers periods. AN ANTILLIA OF THE MAINLAND Again, at a much later time, when the exploration of the South American coast line had proceeded far enough to demonstrate the existence of a continent, some one speculated, it would seem, con- cerning an Antillia of the mainland. One of the maps 12 in the por- tolan atlas in the British Museum known as Egerton MS. 2803 bears the word "Antiglia" running from north to south at a con- siderable distance west of the mouth of the Amazon, apparently about where would now be the southeastern part of Venezuela. Also, the world map 13 in the same atlas (Fig. 8) bears "Antiglia" as a South American name, in this instance moved farther westward to the region of eastern Ecuador and neighboring territory. But these aberrant applications of the name Antillia in its various forms were mostly late in time and probably all sug- gested by some novel geographical disclosures. The standard identification, as disclosed on the maps discussed below, at least from Beccario's of 1435 to Benincasa's of 1482, was with a great group of western islands; as was Peter Martyr's, much later. "Theobald Fischer: Sammlung mittelalterlicher Welt- und Seekarten italieni- schen Ursprungs, i vol. of text and 17 portfolios containing photographs of maps. Venice, 1877-86; reference in Portfolio 13 (Facsimile del planisfero del mondocono- sciuto, in lingua catalana, del xv secolo), PI. 5. 11 [E. F.] Jomard: Les monuments de la geographic, ou recueil d'anciennes cartes europennes et orientales . . . Paris, [1842-62], PL X, i. In Santarem's atlas (cf. Ch. IX, footnote 18), PL 31, the name is interpreted as "Atullis." 14 E. L. Stevenson: Atlas of Portolan Charts: Facsimile of Manuscript in British Museum, Publs. Hispanic Soc. of Amer. No. 81, New York, 1911, folio Qa. i=> Ibid., folio ib.