Harrisse[341] puts _circa_ 1553 a fine parchment planisphere, neither signed nor dated, which is preserved in the Archives of the Marine in Paris. It shows the English standard on Labrador (Greenland), the Portuguese on Nova Scotia, and the Spanish at Florida.
[Illustration: PART OF BELLERO’S MAP, 1554.
The whole map is reproduced in Vol. VIII.]
Another popular American map by Bellero was used in the Antwerp _Gomara_ of 1554, and in several other publications issuing from that city.[342] It was not more satisfactory, as the annexed sketch shows,—which indicates that even in Antwerp the full extent of Cartier’s explorations was not suspected. Nor had Baptista Agnese divined it in his atlas of the same year, preserved in the Biblioteca Marciana at Venice. Our sketch is taken from the fifth sheet as given in a photographic fac-simile[343] issued at Venice in 1881, under the editing of Professor Theodor Fischer, of Kiel.
An elaborate portolano _Cosmographie universelle, par Guillaume Le Testu_, and dated in 1555, is described by Harrisse[344] as an adaptation of a Portuguese atlas, with the addition of some French names. The northern regions of North America are called _Francia_.
In 1556, in the third volume of Ramusio’s _Navigationi et viaggi_,[345] Gastaldi, excelling a little his Ptolemy map of 1548,—a sketch of which is given on p. 88,—produced his _Terra de Labrador et Nova Francia_; while for the accounts which Ramusio now printed of Cartier’s voyage, Gastaldi added the _Terra de Hochelaga nella Nova Francia_,—which was simply a bird’s-eye view of an Indian camp.[346]
In the same year (1556) the map of Volpellio was not less deceptive. Two years later (1558) we find an atlas in the British Museum, the work of Diego Homem, a Portuguese cartographer, which seems to indicate other information than that afforded by Cartier’s voyages. It is not so accurate as regards the St. Lawrence as earlier maps are, but shows additional knowledge of the Bay of Fundy, which comes out for the first time, and is not again so correctly drawn till we get down to Lescarbot, half a century later.
Part of the northern portion of Vopellio’s cordiform mappemonde, which appeared in Girava’s _Cosmographia_, Milan, 1556; cf. _Carter-Brown Catalogue_, i. 200. The map is very rare; Stevens has issued a fac-simile of it from the British Museum copy.]