The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-12-07
BY La MARaUISE DE FONTENoY.
RINCE MAMMALIAN WALDBURG,
y Who has just made an offcr,
through President TAT. 10 thn

- hho IiS luEI maze an OucT,
IL through President Taft, to the
United States, to loan to the
nation the celebrated Carta Marina of
America, the first in which the name
OF the explorer Amerigo (EespuccD
was used to designate this continent,
owes his succession to the title which
ne now bears, and the possession of
nus vast estates, Of his ancient castle
and of this famous map of America
10 the death of his elder brother. who
spent q considerable time in America.
not as a prince possessed OF vast
wealth. nor even under his own name.
but as a Jesuit Priest. under the name
OF Father Frederick" An unfortu-
aate love affair impelled him to for
sake the world, and TO enter holy
orders. Joining the Society OF Jesus,
where after the completion of his
novitiate, he speedily acquired celebri-
Y through his el~oquence. He died in
England. in the Jesuit institution of
Ditton Hall.
The Waldhurg family traces back It's
descent to Werner Won Tame, who
Hourisned in the year 100, and who
was the FIRST owner of that grand
old stronghold, the Castle of Wolfegg,
on the Danube, in Wurternberg, where
these wonderful maps have been found
They were discovered there some nine
years ago by the Jesuit professor and
divine, Father Fischer. when searching
for materials for his history of the
early voyages Of the Norsemen.
This Carta Marina. or map of Amer.
lea. as well as one of Africa, known to
the eientifi world as the Waldsee-
muller map. are the work OF Waldsee-
muller, who was the most famous
g~eosrapher and photographer of his
day, II librarian to the Lords OF
Waldburg. He carried on his work
in the immense library of Wolfegg.
which Is full of all sorts of wonderful
treasures, and 1T was when Father
FISCHER was rumaging among these,
some of them untouched for 200 years.
that he found. along with the Carta
Marina, this map OF Africa, which.
dated 1907, de%lineates with amazing
accuracy the great lakes thai constitute
the sources of the Nile, and which, ac-
cording 70 all modern biographies, en-
cyclopedias and other standard con-
temporary works of reference, were
century ago, BY the explorers Spoke.
Grant and Sir Samuel Baker. Yet
Aristotle, in speaking of the cranes
OF Lower Egypt, declares thai they
the lakes lying above Egypt from
which the Nile arises" while Hero
dotus also makes mention of these
lakes. From this 1t will be seen that
and that the sources of the Nile were
perfectly well known at the time Of
the discovery OF America, and that
IN some strange way they had become
loSL TO the S~eoEraphefS ana scientists
of the seventeenth and eighteenth CEN
turtles, and had to be discovered afresh
in the nineteenth century, by the ex-
plorers Spoke. Grant and Baker.
Prince Macmillan Waldburg has
made some rather foolish conditions in
connected with his offer to loan the
Carta Marina of America to the United
States, demanding that "a warsfip
should be sent to fetch it in state
from Europe, and that his courtesy in
the matter should be acknowledged
by congressional action. These de-
mands, however, apear less extraor-
binary when 1t is explained that the
prince might possibly be induced to
sell the map to the United States, aid
that tho conditions which lie imposes
for the loan may be in order to en-
nance the value of the map in the
event of Its purchase.
Automobiling has served to make
Americans acquainted with Europe to
a degree that was absolutely impos-
sible as long as they We're restricted
to railroads as means of conveyance.
There are n thousand and II things
that are brought to the attention of
one who drives along the high road
that escapes those whose view of the
surrounding country is limited to what
can be seen from the windows of an
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