may have used that mode in his
course to the Canaries: But as his run across the Atlantic was nearly
on a parallel, he must have kept that part of his voyage by what is
called dead reckoning, or by the log.--E.

[4] The middle of Guanahana is in lat. 24 deg. 30' N. The centre of Jamaica in
18 deg. 10' N. The latitudes of Galvano are generally inaccurate; and he
never pretends to assign any longitudes whatever. The series, likewise,
in which he arranges the discoveries of Columbus is very inaccurate.
--E.

[5] Cape de Verd is in 14 deg. 30' N. Deseada in 16 deg. 30' N. a difference of
two degrees of latitude. Dominica, in 15 deg. 30' is the first land said
to have been discovered by Columbus in his _second_ voyage, in the
authentic original narrative by his son, which will be found in the
sequel.--E.

[6] Counting from Dominica to the north side of Cuba, between 15 deg. 30' and
23 deg. 15'.--E.

[7] The negociators of the two crowns, as here related, seem to have been
ignorant that this loose division of the globe gave the whole
reciprocally to each of the parties.--E.

[8] The apparent object seems to have been in search of a passage to the
East Indies by way of the north-west, a chimera long and anxiously
sought after. It is needless to make any observations on these
indistinct notices, as the voyage of Cabot will be afterwards given at
full length.--E.

[9] The centre of Trinidada is in 10 deg. 30'N. its S.W. point in 10 deg. 12', and
the N.E. cape in 10 45' N.--E.

[10] De Barros, Dec. I. 1. 4. c. 2. and to the end of ch. 11.--Hakl.

[11] Osorius says this voyage commenced on the 9th of July.--Clarke.

[12] This Panama seems a blunder of some ignorant copyist, for Panarame.
--E.

[13] The coast here is nearly N. and S. and their course must have been to
the north.--E.

[14] The Marannon and Amazons are the same river. Perhaps by the Rio Dolce
the Orinoco may be meant; but in these slight notices of discovery it
is impossible at times to ascertain the real positions, through the
alteration of names.--E.

[15] From the latitude indicated by Galvano, the land of Cortereal may
have been somewhere on the eastern side of Newfoundland.--E.

[16] Barros, Dec. 1. I. 5. c. 10.

[17] Gomara, I. 2.

[18] About 8200 ounces, worth about L. 16,000 sterling; equal in modern
efficacy, perhaps, to L. 100,000.--E.