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Title: Bancroft's Works History of the Northwest Coast vol 1
Year: 1884 (1880s)
Authors: Bancroft, Hubert Howe
Subjects: history
Publisher: San Francisco, A. L. Bancroft and Company
Contributing Library: Brigham Young University-Idaho, David O. McKay Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Brigham Young University-Idaho
Text: I reproduce the map published by the famous geographer Abraham Ortelius in his Theatrum Orbis Terrarum of 1574.²⁹ It will be seen that this map combines the leading features of the Ramusio and Ptolemy-Munster maps. From the latter we have the strait, and even the indentation, though now reduced to a small bay and not almost severing Canada from Florida, while as in the Ramusio we have a broad stretch of continent, and an attempt to show the discoveries of Niza, Coronado, Ulloa, Alarcon, and slightly those of Cabrillo. The topographical features of the peninsula and gulf of California are much improved, also the course of the rivers flowing into the latter. Totonteac and other names are added from Niza, and those of Tuchano and Tolm from unknown sources. The Gomara-Ramusio transposition of the Cíbola-Quivira towns is continued; and Tiguex, with its river, really the Rio Grande del Norte of New Mexico, is transferred, as Cicuic (Pecos) and Quivira had been before, to the coast of what was later Upper California. Finally the kingdom of Anian appears on the same coast above 60°...

²⁹ Ortelius, Theatrum Orbis Terrarum, Antwerp, 1574, gr. folio, text, 69. There were earlier editions of 1570 and 1571; and later ones, in different languages, of 1588, 1595, 1598, 1603, 1606, and 1624; also a Thesaurus Geographicus, by the same author, of 1578, 1596, and 1611. In my edition of the Theatrum there are over 70 brilliantly colored maps, finely engraved on copper by Hogenberg, two of which, the Typus Orbis, or the world, and Americæ sive Novi Orbis, Nova Descriptio, related to the Pacific States territory. One page of text is given on America, of no special importance.
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