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 Rh Toscanelli and used to guide him in his voyage across the Atlantic. Its general resemblance to the Behaim globe will be remarked … Page 100

The Behaim Globe.—This gives the information about the world possessed in 1492, just as Columbus was starting, and is mainly based upon the map of Toscanelli, which served as his guide. It will be observed that there is no other continent between Spain and Zipangu or Japan, while the fabled islands of St. Brandan and Antilia are represented bridging the expanse between the Azores and Japan … Page 104

Amerigo Vespucci (from Fiske's School History of the United States, by kind permission of Messrs. Houghton, Mifflin & Co.) … Page 110

Ferdinand Magellan (from Fiske's School History of the United States, by kind permission of Messrs. Houghton, Mifflin & Co.) … Page 113

Map of the World, from the Ptolemy Edition of 1548 (after Kretschmer's Entdeckungsgeschichte Amerikas).—It will be observed that Mexico is supposed to be joined on to Asia, and that the North Pacific was not even known to exist … Page 117

Russian Asia (after the Atlas published by the Russian Academy of Sciences in 1737, by kind permission of Messrs. Hachette). Japan is represented as a peninsula. … Page 125

Australia as known in 1745 (from D'Anville's Atlas, by kind permission of Messrs. Hachette).—It will be seen that the Northern and Western coasts were even by this time tolerably well mapped out, leaving only the eastern coast to be explored by Cook … Page 140

Australia, showing routes of explorations (prepared specially for the present volume). The names of the chief explorers are given at the top of the map … Page 151

Africa as known in 1676 (from Dapper's Atlas),—This includes a knowledge of most of the African rivers and lakes due to the explorations of the Portuguese … Page 155