and the Seres, and beyond 180 deg. of
East Longitude, many countries were discovered by one [_quendam_]
Marco Polo a Venetian and others, and the sea-coasts of those
countries have now recently again been explored by Columbus the
Genoese and Amerigo Vespucci in navigating the Western Ocean.... To
this part (of Asia) belong the territory called that of the
_Bachalaos_ [or Codfish, Newfoundland], _Florida_, _the Desert of
Lop_, _Tangut_, _Cathay_, the realm of _Mexico_ (wherein is the vast
city of _Temistitan_, built in the middle of a great lake, but which
the older travellers styled QUINSAY), besides _Paria_, _Uraba_, and
the countries of the _Canibals_." (_Joannis Schoneri Carolostadtii
Opusculum Geogr._, quoted by Humboldt, _Examen_, V. 171, 172.)

[16] In Robert Parke's Dedication of his Translation of Mendoza's, London,
1st of January, 1589, he identifies China and Japan with the regions
of which _Paulus Venetus_ and _Sir John Mandeuill_ "wrote long agoe."
--_MS. Note by Yule_.

[17] "_Totius Europae et Asiae Tabula Geographica, Auctore Thoma D.
Aucupario. Edita Argentorati_, MDXXII." Copied in Witsen.

[18] This strange association of _Balor_ (i.e., Bolor, that name of so
many odd vicissitudes, see pp. 178-179 infra) with the shut-up
Israelites must be traced to a passage which Athanasius Kircher quotes
from _R. Abraham Pizol_ (qu. Peritsol?): "_Regnum_, inquit, Belor
_magnum et excelsum nimis, juxta omnes illos qui scripserunt
Historicos_. Sunt in eo Judaei _plurimi inclusi, et illud in latere
Orientali et Boreali_," etc. (_China Illustrata_, p. 49.)

[19] Vol. ii. p. 1.

[20] _A short Account of Libraries of Italy_, by the Hon. R. Curzon
(the late Lord de la Zouche); in _Bibliog. and Hist. Miscellanies;
Philobiblon Society_, vol. i, 1854, pp. 6. seqq.

[21] P. del Natali was Bishop of Equilio, a city of the Venetian Lagoons,
in the latter part of the 14th century. (See _Ughelli, Italia Sacra_,
X. 87.) There is no ground whatever for connecting him with these
inventions. The story of the glass types appears to rest entirely and
solely on one obscure passage of Sansovino, who says that under the
Doge Marco Corner (1365-1367): "_certe Natale Veneto lascio un libro
della materie delle forme da giustar intorno alle lettere, ed il modo
di formarle di vetro_." There is absolutely nothing more. So