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 172 CORVO not much later slightly resembling an indented segment of a circle, to the three-lobed or clover-leaf form which was ac- cepted as the final convention or standard and first clearly ap- pears in the great Catalan atlas 19 of 1375, repeated by Beccario I 435 20 > Benincasa I482 21, and others; but all agree in making Corvo the main island and Li Conigi (Flores) a minor pendant. Corvo seems in every way to have commanded chief attention, 1 3 4 6 4 Jnsule.de corvi Insula de corvi man n is liconigi ^ ilia da corvi marinis <V liconigi 1 PO*TOLANO LAURENZ1ANO- OAODIANO/I35I %San Gtorgio CATALAN MAP 15 CENTURY BENINCASA 1482 2 5 7 t Corvo %yde corvi marini ft liconigi ILl.Colombi JT Insula. de Brazil tf Corvo marim liconigi fll Ho res ANONYMOUS PORTOLAN 14" CENTURY CATALAN ATIAS Mv BECCARIO 1435 MODERN MAP laio FIG. 23 Representation of Corvo on fourteenth- and fifteenth-century maps as compared with its present outline. (The sources may be identified from the text.) and in size the difference was conspicuous and decisive. The difference certainly is great enough now, but conditions and proportions are reversed. Corvo has but one-eighth the area of Flores and less than one-tenth the population. In all ways it lacks advantages and conveniences, taking rather the place of a poor dependent. 19 A. E. Nordenskiold, Periplus, PI. n (not shown on Fig. 5). 20 Gustavo Uzielli: Mappamondi, carte nautiche e portolani del medioevo e dei secoli delle grandi scoperte marittime construiti da italiani o trovati nelle biblio- teche d'ltalia, Part II (pp. 280-390) of "Studi Bibliografici e Biografici sulla Storia della Geografia in Italia," published on the occasion of the Second International Geographical Congress, Paris, 1875. by the Societa Geografica Italiana, Rome, 1875; reference on PI. 8 (the second edition, Rome, 1882, does not contain the plates). Also Babcock, Early Norse Visits to North America, PI. 4. See our Fig. 20. 21 Konrad Kretschmer: Die Entdeckung Amerika's in ihrer Bedeutung fur die Geschichte des Weltbildes, 2 vols. (text and atlas), Berlin, 1892; reference in atlas, PI. 4. See our Fig. 22.