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 FOUR ANTILLES ON BECCARIO MAP 153 may refer to the discovery recorded by Behaim for 1414 or to some more recent experience. The interval would not be much greater than that between the first landing of Colum- bus and the narrative of Peter Martyr beginning with equiva- lent words. It is likely, however, that some lost map or maps preceded Beccario's, for the artificially regular outlines of his islands, though in accord with the fashion of cartography in his time, seem rather out of keeping with a first appearance. The type had somehow fixed itself with curious minuteness and was repeated faithfully by his successors. In spite of these im- possibly symmetrical details and some discrepancies as to indi- vidual direction of elongation and latitude, the fact remains that in the Atlantic there is no such great group except the Antilles and that the general correspondence is too surprising to be explained by mere accident or conjecture. Surely some mariner had visited Cuba and some of its neighbors before 1435. This map of Beccario had been somewhat neglected, with mis- reading of the names, before it was taken in hand by the Italian Geographical Society and reproduced very carefully by photo- lithography. As regards the island names in particular, this eliminated some misunderstanding and confusion and made their meaning plain. Thus rendered, the map affords a convenient standard for the others, which, indeed, differ from it very little as to these "Islands of Antillia." THE FOUR ISLANDS OF THE ANTILLES ON THE BECCARIO MAP This group, or more properly series for three of them are strung out in a line comprises the four islands Antillia, Reylla, Salvagio, and I in Mar. All these names have meaning, easy to render. ANTILLIA The largest and most southerly, Antillia, the "opposite island," which I take to be no other than Cuba, is shown as an elongated, very much conventionalized parallelogram, extending from the latitude of Morocco a little south of the Strait of Gibraltar to