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Terrestrial and Celestial Globes.
"Many imaginary islands, in the Atlantic, are retained on
the globe: including 'Frisland,' 'Buss Ins,' 'Brasil,' 'Maidas,'
'Heptapolis,'
America are the countries of Florida, Virginia, and Norum-
'St-. Brandan.' On the eastern side of North
bega; and also a large town of Norumbega up a gulf full of
islands.
"The learned Dr. Dee had composed a treatise on the
title of Queen Elizabeth to Norumbega; and in modern
times Professor Horsford has written a memoir to identify
Norumbega with a site up the Charles River, near Boston.
On the Atlantic, near the American coast, is the following
legend 'Virginia primum lustrata, habitata, et cultu ab Anglis
impensis D. Gualteri de Ralegh Equitis Aurati ammenti
Elizabethae Angliae Reginae.' ('Virginia first surveyed, in-
habited and cultivated by the English at the expense of Sir
Walter Raleigh, Knight, subsidized by the gold of Eliza-
beth Queen of England.')
"A legend in the Pacific Ocean furnishes direct evidence
that information, for compiling the globe was supplied by
Sir Walter Raleigh. It is in Spanish: 'Islas estas descubrio
Pedro Sarmiento de Gamboa por la Corona de Castella y
Leon desde el ano 1568 llamolas Islas de Jesus aunque vul-
farmente las llaman Islas de Salomon.' ('Pedro Sarmiento
of Gamboa discovered these islands in the year 1568 for the
crown of Castile and Leon calling them the Islands of Jesus
though they are commonly called the Salomon Islands.')
"Pedro Sarmiento was the officer who was sent to fortify
the Strait of Magellan after Drake had passed through. He
was taken prisoner by an English ship on his way to Spain,
and was the guest of Raleigh in London for several weeks,
so that it must have been on information communicated by
Sarmiento on this
Raleigh that the statement respecting
legend was based.
"Besides 'Insulae Salmonis' there are two islands in the
Pacific, 'Y Sequenda de los Tubarones,' and 'San Pedro,'
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