Identifier: saintlawrencebas00daws (find matches)
Title: The Saint Lawrence basin and its border-lands; being the story of their discovery, exploration and occupation
Year: 1900 (1900s)
Authors: Dawson, Samuel Edward, 1833-1916
Subjects: Canada -- History To 1763 (New France) Saint Lawrence River Valley -- History New France -- Discovery and exploration
Publisher: Toronto : Musson Book Co.
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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theSebastian Cabot map of 1544 and is the east point ofCajie P.rcton. The moment this is apprehended, cverythinq^ becomesclear. y\ll the evidence falls into line. Ayala, with JohnCabots chart before his eyes, wrote (July 25, 1498) toKinjT Ferdinand that the land found was at the end ofthat which belonc^s to your Hicjhness by the conventionwith Portuc^al (/. c, the Treaty of Tordesillas), and weknow the line of demarcation was held to cut the NovaScotia coast at the equivalent of our meridian of 60°, andclose to Cai)e Jireton. Those who frequent the coastknow that in June. July, and Auc^ust Cape Race is seldomseen. The southeast corner of Newfoundland is wrappedin fog for twenty-four days out of thirty. Appendix Cof a paper in the Transactions of the Royal Society ofCanada for 1897 is a table compiled from the recordsof the lif^hthouse keeper at Ca))e Race for the month ofJune in four successive years 1894-1897. establishing thatfact, if indeed, so patent a fact in physical geography
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JOHN CABOTS FIRST VOYAGE 31 needed establishing-. Passing Cape Race in foggyweather Cabot continued on his western course andcould not fail therefore to arrive at Cape Breton. There,as we know from the contemporary letters, he did notstay, but, being short of provisions, he returned at once.In returning he coasted and named the south coast ofNewfoundland, and took his departure for England fromthe Cape of England (Cape Race). The reason thereturn voyage took 43 days is thus apparent. Such is the testimony of John Cabot to the discoveriesof the English, embodied in a contemporaneous map madefor the King of Spain by the master and owner of theflagship of Columbus on his first voyage in 1492 and thepilot of his fleet. The testimony of Cabots son, Sebas-tian, is contained in a world-map, dated 1544, of whichthe copy in the National Library at Paris is the only oneknown to exist. It is a printed map and was found asrecently as A. D. 1843. The information given upon itis partly by numbered

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