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.

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