New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1895-11-10

From Notes and Queries.

From Notes and Queries
have lately. to my great surprise, met with
lea published in Paris in 1924. hanging on the bed
room wall OF an invalid cottager. formerly iarn
1t is in wonderfully good preservation and me
names are legbe as II they had been printed
both Latin and French: America Septentrionas
in suas praeGpuas pasjes dy nero as
divisee principles parties. Presente Mon.
segneuT e Duo de fa ao wso is nD
questionably the same rs Hubert Alexis Jalilos
described IN Holes Brief BioEraphica p,u ION;
1 vepv considering its date although
modern map OF North America. | was much in
track o Mto Tans ysf on eT 8 %
rador (see Paradise Lost" bk x $50; what 3
"Normmbega" marked mentioned by Milton a
few lines further on. Professor Mason says that
''Norumbega. in Cd maps IS the part Of the coss!
OF the present United States nearest to Canada
In note. however quoted IN an earlier edld aS o,
very different locality ia assigned to Norumbega;
there T. Is sesd to be IA pr90ge Sa ne
have thought that The peninsula OF L1wer w;
the Mar vermejo on Mer Rouge between / ant
the continent Of North America. To the northwes'
o. Hpd,on R %or fn1 Wa is or and md
Wales" These last three names fancy have
long disappeared from the map OK North Amer
Some OF the names in the neishborhood Of til the
lion Cay.. Indian trIhesp. but perhaps not muc9i
more 50 than some Of The pace names IN Anglesey
mons Oukovarararonons. Eachriouschaeronons "a
fearsome nameD, Coaouaeronon Oupapinacn ouet:
acknowledgements. Cacouchaqul &c. The last
name reminds one OF Covielle's "Cacaracamou-
chen. cesa dire. ma chere anne IN Ice h h seols
Gsnt,homme" am rather surprised at nnd'ng these
names the map. as DO not remember such mon,
ROD 9l nan rSmance that have read nor
In ''Hlawatha." although. some OF the names IN the
latter are outlandish enough ceitainy i9hsis Nv
hay toen -
names into his unrhymcd eight syllable verse! Thi::
map was published many years before the period OF
Cooper's romances The period OF The Deersiayer
IS hnk n rs, that e Tsg S Of n s MGs
by Cooper in the preface. the middle Of the elgh'
tenth century. ,., ,
into the Cuff Of Mexico near where the M!sAssIppi
runs into IT, Was "Chucagua" the French. or, from
+ sGSnd Of DO not PaS the
all. but there Is large aniuen OF the SnusasHa.
kansas River Acadie O.ee "Evange.ln~'D is most
ds.c aksS vs Some has Wills"
tAcsdie, The island OF Guanahanl tSan savadors |.
s:nsion a." 70 Guanahsni in his columbus" IT, 30
AS OF our three greatest poets - represented
om ,ne nap by the Isles BcrmudSs Shakespeare
"stll:-vexed Bermoothes and By .virsins: Spen.
Manras to The second book OF the 'Faere oueene''l
both OF which are very d!stinctW marnen w .
enough. the carographer has not fet IT necessary e
with savage pictures ni his gaps.
Place buffaoes instead Of towns.
70 parody Swift 49, 5000, .
pecaiy the latter appear 70 be very accurately rep
resrrtel To tie eastward OF the map. f'scosse
shows as A, were one finger. and orlando scarcey
so much as a finger though sne Is just visible The
"Isrs do Schetand" the Uses Orcades' and the
"Westernes Isles" are distinctly marked. as Also IL
Flores In the Azores (where) Sir Richard Grenvi.e
Law In Tennvson's ballad.
The map. with It's margin Is nearly twenty I'VE
nns woud NOT have expected ind interesting
a map in an English farm laborer's cottage